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145 from Greek and Roman Materials

1. Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, An Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon alphabetic letter *m, entry mureye/w
   to prepare unguents, Aesop. (22.95)

2. Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon alphabetic letter *u, entry u(po/
   Vit.Aesop. (22.37)

3. A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith) alphabetic letter P
   They consist of orations and homilies; translations from Latin into Greek of Cicero's Somnium Scipionis, Caesar de Bello Gallico, Ovid's Metamorphoses, Cato's Disticha Moralia, Boëthius de Consolatione, St. Augustin de Trinitate and de Civitate Dei, and Donatus's Grammatica Parva ; two grammatical works ; a collection of Aesop's Fables, with a worthless Lift of Aesop ; some arithmetical works, especially Scholia, of no great value, on the first two books of the Arithmetic of Diophantus; a few works on natural history; Commestaries on the Rhetoric of Hermogenes, and on other Greek writers; a poem in forty-seven hexameters, on Claudius Ptolemaeus, and a few other poems; and his Anthology. (21.63)

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14 from Renaissance Materials

1. Alexander Dyce, A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works alphabetic letter A, entry ass
   asson thy back o'er the dirt—Thou borest thine, An allusion to Æsop's celebrated fable of the Old Man and his Ass. assayof arms—To give the,“to attempt or assay anything in arms or by force” assemblancesemblance, external aspect, assinego(assinico,), a silly, a stupid fellow (“Asnico. (9.02)

2. William Shakespeare, The Tragedie of Coriolanus (ed. Horace Howard Furness, Jr., A. B.; Litt. D.) act 1, scene 1, commline 98
   Lafontaine has related it in his own inimitable manner; and, lastly, the editor of Baskerville and Dodsley's Æsop has given it in a style not inferior perhaps to that of any of his predecessors. (5.80)

3. M. W. MacCallum, Shakespeare's Roman Plays and their Background part 1, chapter 3
   There is perhaps here and there a touch that suggests the professional moralist and rhetorician: as when he recounts a fable of Aesop's to enforce his advice; or bids his wife not to dwell on her griefs rather than her blessings, like those Criticks who collect and gather together all the lame and defective verses of Homer, which are but few in number; and in the meane time passe over an infinite sort of others which were by him most excellently made ; or warns her to look to her health because, if the bodie be evill entreated and not regarded with good diet and choice keeping, it becometh dry, rough and hard, in such sort as from it there breathe no sweet and comfortable exhalations unto the soule, but all smoakie and bitter vapors of dolour griefe and sadnesse annoy her. (5.80)

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7 from The Tragedie of Coriolanus

1. William Shakespeare, Critical Commentary: The Tragedie of Coriolanus (ed. Horace Howard Furness, Jr., A. B.; Litt. D.) act 1, scene 1, commline 98
   Lafontaine has related it in his own inimitable manner; and, lastly, the editor of Baskerville and Dodsley's Æsop has given it in a style not inferior perhaps to that of any of his predecessors. (5.65)

2. William Shakespeare, Critical Commentary: The Tragedie of Coriolanus (ed. Horace Howard Furness, Jr., A. B.; Litt. D.) act 2, scene 1, commline 41
   Case (Arden Sh.) quotes Johnson's elucidation and adds, ‘Dr Tyrrell kindly provides the following note: “The original fable of Æsop, reproduced by Phædrus, IV, 10, [Bk IV, Fable ix, ed. (5.65)

3. William Shakespeare, Critical Commentary: The Tragedie of Coriolanus (ed. Horace Howard Furness, Jr., A. B.; Litt. D.) act 4, scene 2, commline 26
   [I am inclined to think that Æsop is largely responsible for endowing the fox with the vice of ingratitude. (5.09)

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17 from The Bolles Collection on the History of London

1. Sidney Lee, Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome alphabetic letter B, entry 2575
   woodengraver, son of Thomas Bewick [q. v.], whose partner he became, 1812; assisted in ‘Fables of AEsop’ (1818) and ‘History of British Fishes. (14.76)

2. Blanchard Jerrold, Gustave Doré, London: A Pilgrimage chapter 7, page 66
   On these far-between holidays there is a downright general determination to agree with AEsop, as interpreted by Dickens, that the bow must be sometimes loose. (8.56)

3. Sidney Lee, Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome alphabetic letter C, entry 7492
   miscellaneous writer; educated at Eton and St. John's College, Cambridge; M.A., 1717; D.D., 1728; prebendary of Hereford, 1727 and 1730; vicar of St. Mary Somerset and St. Mary Mounthaw, London, 1731-52; archdeacon of Shropshire, 1732; chancellor of Hereford, 1738; built a house with the materials of an ancient chapel in Hereford Cathedral; published ‘An Original Canto of Spencer (sic),’ 1713 and 1714 (satire on the Earl of Oxford), ‘The Vision,’ 1715, a translation of Ovid's ‘Metamorphoses,’ 1717, ‘The Fair Circassian,’ an indelicate adaptation of the Song of Solomon, first printed in 1720, a translation of AEsop's ‘Fables,’ 1722, and ‘Scripture Politics,’ 1735. [xiii. (6.27)

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2 from American Memory: California

1. A California tramp and later footprints; or, Life on the plains and in the golden state thirty years ago, with miscellaneous sketches in prose and verse ... illustrated with thirty-nine wood and photo-engravings. By T.S. Kenderdine page 313
   In my tender youth, when I read Aesop's Fables, I always "skipped " the Morals as too ponderous for my understanding, being satisfied to revel in the talks and actions of apes and foxes, wolves and lambs, lions and asses and other impossible conversationalists. (4.03)

2. An excursion to California over the prairie, Rocky mountains, and great Sierra Nevada. With a stroll through the diggings and ranches of that country. By William Kelly page 122
   We frequently before experienced sudden transitions, but this was by much the quickest, reminding me of Æsop's "Contest betwixt the Wind and the Sun" in its effect on our change of garments. (3.54)

1 from American Memory: Upper Midwest

1. Wau-bun, the early day in the Northwest. by Mrs. John H. Kinzie page 244
   The Indians have the genius of Æsop for depicting animal life and character, and there is among them a fable or legend illustrative of every peculiarity in the personal appearance, habits, or dispositions of each variety of the animal creation. (6.27)

2 from American Memory: Chesapeake Bay

1. William Byrd, A journey to the land of Eden: and other papers, by William Byrd page 55
   Here the people were glad to lay down their loads and take a little refreshment, while the happy man, whose lot it was to carry the jug of rum, began already, like Æsop's bread-carriers, to find it grow a good deal lighter. (3.45)

2. Charles Frederick Stansbury, Lake of the Great Dismal page 139
   Here the people were glad to lay down their loads, and take a little refreshment, while the happy man, whose lot it was to carry the Tugg of Rum, began already, like Æsop's Bread Carriers, to find it grow a good deal lighter. (2.53)