Chapter I: Preface

In the Translation of Phædrus, the Critical Edition by Orellius, 1831, has been used, and in the Æsopian Fables, the text of the Parisian Edition of Gail, 1826. The Notes will, it is believed, be found to embody the little that is known of the contemporary history of the Author.

H. T. R.

CONTENTS.

THE FABLES OF PHÆDRUS.

[Transcriber's Note:

The Table of Contents refers primarily to the Riley text. Fables
I.XXIX, III.III, and several Fables in Book IV are missing in Smart;
Riley's Fable IV.I, "The Ass and the Priests of Cybele", is Smart's
III.XIX. Where Smart's numbers are different, they have been added
in [brackets] after the page reference.

In the text, Book III, Fable XI is "The Eunuch to the Abusive Man";
all following fables in Riley are numbered one higher than in the
Table of Contents. This fable is missing from Smart but the number
X is skipped, as was number I.XVIII.]