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| The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05. |
| Phaedrus |
(f ´dr s) (KEY) , fl. 1st cent. A.D., Latin writer, a Thracian slave, possibly a freedman of Augustus. He wrote fables in verse based largely on those of Aesop. The prose collections of fables that were popular throughout Western Europe in the Middle Ages were probably derived from Phaedrus. |
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