Note 421 — Chapter V · PHAEDRUS AND FABLE: POETRY OF THE TIME
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Ellis (op. cit.) gives a useful account of MSS. and early history of the text. Janelli, the editor of the “Perottine” fables in 1811, has been supported by Cardinal Mai, Orelli, Lachmann, L. Müller, Hervieux and Ribbeck in accepting their descent from Phaedrus. Ellis (op. cit., pp. 25-28) gives reasons against crediting this, and compares the impression left by these fables to that left by various imitations of Ovid, the Nux or the Epicedion Drusi or the spurious poems among the Heroides.