Babrius biography of abraham

Lewis, shortly before the Augustan age, though dates have been assigned to him from B. One of his editors, Boissonade, believes that he was a Roman. His name occurs in some of the old grammarians, and a few fragments were ascribed to him. Tyrwhitt followed up the researches of Bentley, and for some time the efforts of scholars were directed towards reconstructing the metrical original of the prose fables.

In , however, M. This MS. The fables are written in choliambic, i. The style is extremely good, the expression being terse, pointed, and elegant, and the construction of the stories is fully equal to that in the prose versions. The MS. The genuineness of this collection of the fables was generally admitted by scholars. According to his statement, the monks, who had been willing to sell the MS.

He therefore made a copy which was sold to the British Museum, and was published in by Sir G. But these fables only purport to be Babrius spoiled,, after having passed through the hands of a "diasceuast," that is, some late writer who has turned his verses into barbarous Greek and wretched metre. In a Latin dissertation, published in , Professor Conington carefully examined this part, arriving at the conclusion that the fables were metrical versions of the prose stories, executed by some forger who must have been acquainted with Lachmann's conjectures on fragments formerly known.

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Cobet expresses a similar opinion, but in stronger terms. It is not impossible that the forger was Mynas himself. Sir G.