Aesop

[ ee-suh p, ee-sop ]

/ ˈi səp, ˈi sɒp /

c620–c560 b.c., Greek writer of fables.

Example sentences from the Web for aesop

A long list of favorite books includes Animal Farm, Brave New World, The Wizard Of Oz, Aesop's Fables, and The Odyssey.

Gabrielle Giffords' Gunman: Jared Lee Loughner |Eve Conant |January 8, 2011 |DAILY BEAST
The company were more than ever struck by Aesop's ingenuity, and they interceded for him with his master.

De La Salle Fifth Reader |Brothers of the Christian Schools
These few facts are all that can be relied on with any degree of certainty, in reference to the birth, life, and death of Aesop.

Aesop's Fables |Aesop
Emerson ranks him with Aesop; Montalembert commends his style as a model for the imitation of princes.

A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln |John G. Nicolay

At Aquila in 1493 an Aesop was produced, copied from the Naples edition of 1485.

Fine Books |Alfred W. Pollard
Ysopet (diminutive of Aesop) became a common term in the middle ages for a collection of fables.

A Short History of French Literature |George Saintsbury

Aesop

/ (ˈiːsɒp) /

?620–564 bc, Greek author of fables in which animals are given human characters and used to satirize human failings

Aesopian or Aesopic, adjective