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en-wikipedia-org-6735		Phaedrus (fabulist) - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	1969	212	72	Gaius Julius Phaedrus (/ˈfiːdrəs/; Greek: Φαῖδρος; Phaîdros) was a 1st-century CE Roman fabulist and the first versifier of a collection of Aesop's fables into Latin. Phaedrus is now recognized as the first writer to compile entire books of fables in Latin, retelling the Aesopic tales in senarii, a loose iambic metre.[2] The dates of composition and publication are unknown. In later books we find tales of Roman events well after the time of Aesop such as "Tiberius and the slave" (II.5) and "Augustus and the accused wife" (III.9), as well as the poet's personal reply to envious detractors (IV.21); there are also anecdotes in which Aesop figures from the later biographical tradition (II.3; III.3; IV.5; and items 9 and 20 in Perotti's appendix). The fables of Phaedrus soon began to be published as school editions, both in the original Latin and in prose translation.[10][11] Since the 18th century there have also been four complete translations into English verse. ^ The Fables of Phaedrus translated into English prose, London 1745 Wikipedia articles with LCCN identifiers	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-6735.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-6735.txt