Note 233 — Terminal Essay.
Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2
Herodotus (ii. c. 134) notes that “Æsop the fable-writer (ὁ λογόποιος) was one of her (Rhodopis) fellow slaves.” Aristophanes (Vespæ, 1446) refers to his murder by the Delphians and his fable beginning, “Once upon a time there was a fight;” while the Scholiast finds an allusion to The Serpent and the Crab in Pax 1084; and others in Vespæ 1401, and Aves 651.