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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 342 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PHAEDRUS , See also:

Roman fabulist, was by See also:birth a Macedonian and lived in the reigns of See also:Augustus, Tiberius, See also:Gaius and See also:Claudius. According to his own statement (See also:prologue to See also:book iii.), not perhaps to be taken too literally, he was See also:born on the Pierian See also:Mountain, but he seems to have been brought at an See also:early See also:age to See also:Italy, for he mentions that he read a See also:verse of See also:Ennius as a boy at school. According to the heading of the See also:chief MS. he was a slave and was freed by Augustus. He incurred the wrath of See also:Sejanus, the powerful See also:minister of Tiberius, by some supposed allusions in his fables. and was brought to trial and punished. We learn this from the prologue to the third book, which is dedicated to Eutychus, who has been identified with the famous 342 See also:medieval versions of Phaedrus and their derivatives see L. See also:Roth, in Philologus, i. 523 seq. ; E. See also:Grosse, in Jahrb. f. class. Philol., cv. (1872); and especially the learned See also:work of Hervieux, See also:Les Fabulistes latins depuis le siecle d'Auguste jusqu'a la fin du moyen age (See also:Paris, 1884),'who gives the Latin texts of all the medieval imitators (See also:direct and indirect) of Phaedrus, some of them being published for the first See also:time. (J.

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