Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 106

[16] These various references to Babrias induced Dr. Richard Bentley, at the close of the seventeenth century, to examine more minutely the existing versions of Æsop’s Fables, and he maintained that many of them could, with a slight change of words, be resolved into the Scazonic[17] iambics, in which Babrias is known to have written: and, with a greater freedom than the evidence then justified, he put forth, in behalf of Babrias, a claim to the exclusive authorship of these fables.

Who acts: various references, reference, Babrias, words · What happens: induce, examine, exist, maintain, resolve, know · To what, where: 16, existing versions, Scazonic, Babrias, behalf

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