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* aScqucst of IRev. lb. (. ScabbiiU3, 2).2). to tbe Xibrac^ of tbe 'mnivciTiit^ of ^Toronto 1901 FABLES OF BABRIUS. : BM5 .Ed THE FABLES OF BABRIUS, / . \ IN TWO PARTS. TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH VERSE FROM THE TEXT OF SIR G. C. LEWIS. BY THE REV. JAMES DAVIES, M.A. Sometime Scholar of Lincoln College, Oxford. < i LONDON LOG WOOD AND CO. S A I R S' HALL COURT. MDCCCLX. LONDON '. R. CLAY, PRINTER, BREAD STREET HILL. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR GEORGE CORNEWALL LEWIS, Secretary of State for the Home Department, Honorary Student of Christ Church, Oxford, and Editor of the Fables of Babrins, THIS ATTEMPT TO RENDER INTO ENGLISH VERSE THE FABLES OF AN AUTHOR, WHOM HIS LITERARY LABOURS HAVE EFFECTUALLY RESCUED FROM OBLIVION, IS DEDICATED WITH RESPECT AND GRATEFUL ACKNOWLEDGMENT BY ONE WHO WOULD FAIN TAKE HIM AS A MODEL IN BLENDING CLASSICAL STUDY WITH THE SEVERER DUTIES OF LIFE. Moor Court, Herefordshire, June ilth, i860. PREFACE. "^JO question is more often put to one who pro- fesses an acquaintance with the Fables of Babrius than, "Who Avas Babrius? Avhen did he hve?" and the querist is sceptical, when, in answer, he is bidden to discard, as erroneous, the notion that it is to ^sop, and not to Babrius, that he owes the collection of Fables which charmed his youth. Yet so it is, and it is hoped that the A-ersion of Babrius into English, now put forth, may, with the aid of a prefatory state- ment, based on the researches of the learned, tend to place the matter in a true light.
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