Produced by Louise Hope, Carl Hudkins and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) [Transcriber’s Note: This e-text includes characters that will only display in UTF-8 (Unicode) text readers, including a few Greek words in the footnotes: Œ, œ [“oe” ligature] Μωμεῖσθαι If any of these characters do not display properly, or if the apostrophes and quotation marks in this paragraph appear as garbage, make sure your text reader’s “character set” or “file encoding” is set to Unicode (UTF-8). You may also need to change the default font. As a last resort, use the Latin-1 or ASCII version of the file instead. The text is taken from an omnibus volume that also contained Riley’s translation of the six surviving plays of Terence. The full title page has been retained for completeness, but the sections of the Preface and Contents that apply only to Terence have been omitted. In the original text, words and phrases supplied by the translator (Riley only) were printed in _italics_. In this e-text they are shown in {braces}. Italics in the notes and commentary are shown conventionally with _lines_, boldface by =marks=. Footnotes have been renumbered within each Book, and grouped after their Fables. The name is spelled “Æsop” in Riley, “Esop” in Smart and in the Contents. Inconsistencies in fable numbering are described at the beginning of the Table of Contents. Typographical errors are listed at the end of the text.] * * * * * * * * * The COMEDIES of TERENCE. And The FABLES of PHÆDRUS. Literally Translated into English Prose with Notes, By HENRY THOMAS RILEY, B.A. Late Scholar Of Clare Hall, Cambridge. To Which Is Added A METRICAL TRANSLATION OF PHÆDRUS, By CHRISTOPHER SMART, A.M. London: George Bell & Sons, York Street, Covent Garden. 1887. PREFACE. In the Translation of Phædrus, the Critical Edition by Orellius, 1831, has been used, and in the Æsopian Fables, the text of the Parisian Edition of Gail, 1826. The Notes will, it is believed, be found to embody the little that is known of the contemporary history of the Author. H. T. R. CONTENTS. THE FABLES OF PHÆDRUS. [Transcriber’s Note: The Table of Contents refers primarily to the Riley text. Fables I.XXIX, III.III, and several Fables in Book IV are missing in Smart; Riley’s Fable IV.I, “The Ass and the Priests of Cybele”, is Smart’s III.XIX. Where Smart’s numbers are different, they have been added in [brackets] after the page reference. In the text, Book III, Fable XI is “The Eunuch to the Abusive Man”; all following fables in Riley are numbered one higher than in the Table of Contents. This fable is missing from Smart but the number X is skipped, as was number I.XVIII.] BOOK I.