And so, having taken our survey of the fabulist and his work, we conclude, as we rightly may, that he is both philosopher and poet, but more poet than philosopher, inasmuch as the imaginative faculty is greatly at his command. Further, as saith Sir Philip Sidney,[74] 'The philosopher teacheth, but he teacheth obscurely, so as the learned only can understand him; that is to say, he teacheth them that are already taught. But the poet is the food for the tenderest stomachs; the poet is, indeed, the right popular philosopher. Whereof Æsop's tales give good proof; whose pretty allegories, stealing under the formal tales of beasts, make many, more beastly than beasts, begin to hear the sound of virtue from these dumb speakers.' FOOTNOTES: [72] 'The Baby's Own Æsop;' the fables condensed in rhyme by W. J. Linton. Routledge, 1887. [73] 'Æsop's Fables,' translated from the Greek by the Rev. George Fyler Townsend, M.A. Routledge. [74] 'A Defence of Poesie.' INDEX. Æsop: his era, 33; birthplace, 33; his masters when a slave, 33; his mission to Delphi, 34; his death, 35; disparagement of his personal appearance, 36; due to Planudes, 37; his mate or wife, Rhodope, 38; Lysippus' statue of Æsop, 39; stories related of, 42; Æsop and the figs, 44; the pannier of bread, 45; bought by Zanthus, 45; Zanthus' foolish wager, 46; Zanthus' wife restored, 46; Æsop and the mean fellow, 47; at play, 48; and the author, 48; sayings of, 49; at the Court of Crœsus, 49; as a fabulist, 97 _Æsop and the Ass_, 115 'Æsop, G. Washington,' parody on Æsop's fables, 127 Æsopian fable or apologue defined, 5; opinions regarding the, 52; characteristics of the, 55 Ademar, 128 Agathia's epigram on Lysippus' statue of Æsop, 39 Aitken, Dr., fables by, 127 Aldus' edition of the fables, 59 Alfonso, 128 Aphthonius, definition of fable by, 2 Apologue or fable, definition of the, 1 Applicability of fables to every-day life, 58 Application of fables, 13 Arabian fables, 80 Archilochus, a writer of fables, 54 Aristotle on fables, 68 _Arrogant Mule mortified, The_, 75 Arwaker, Edmund, 'Truth in Fiction; or, Morality in Masquerade,' fables by, 126 _Ass's Shadow, The_, 79 'Assemblies of Æsopian Fables,' 55 Avienus, 55, 61 Babrius, 55, 61, 65 Bayle on Babrius, 66 _Beau and the Butterfly, The_, 133 _Bee and the Coquette, The_, 130 _Bee and the Spider, The_, 111 _Belly and the Members, The_, 54, 68; the oldest known fable, 69 Bentley, Dr., ridicules the account of Æsop's deformity, 40; on Babrius, 66 Berington on 'The Arabian or Saracenic Learning,' 85 Bias, 34 Bitteux, 60 Bonus Accursius, his collection of fables, 59 'Book of Kalilah and Dimnah,' The, 80 Boothby, Sir Brooke, definition of fable by, 3 _Boy and the Rainbow, The_, 137 Brettinger, 60 Brown, Walter, fables by, 127 _Bull and the Gnat, The_, 57