Esopic

The Arabian sage Lokinan is represented by tradition to have been a black slave, and of hideous appearance, from which, and from the identity of the apologues in the Arabian collection that bears his name as the author with the so-called Esopic fables, some writers have supposed that Esop and Lokman are simply different names of one and the same individual.

Flowers from a Persian Garden and Other Papers William Alexander Clouston 1869

But those interested in the genealogy of popular tales and fables will be glad to have Mr. Jacobs 'all but exhaustive account of the so-called Esopic fables, together with his excellent synopsis of parallels, in preference to the monkish collection of spurious anecdotes of the fabulist, of which the most noteworthy are given in the present paper.

Flowers from a Persian Garden and Other Papers William Alexander Clouston 1869

The so-called Esopic apologue of the Lion and the House is found in an

Flowers from a Persian Garden and Other Papers William Alexander Clouston 1869

France, of the 13th century; and it is one of the many spurious Esopic fables.

Flowers from a Persian Garden and Other Papers William Alexander Clouston 1869