Aesop
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See also: Æsop
English
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Etymology
From Ancient Greek Αἴσωπος (Aísōpos).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Aesop
- An ancient Greek author, famous for the fables ascribed to him.
- 1912, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, translated by Constance Garnett, The Brothers Karamazov, published 1880, Book II, chapter 8:
- I'll win them by politeness, and... and... show them that I've nothing to do with that Aesop, that buffoon, that Pierrot, and have merely been taken in over this affair, just as they have.
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ancient Greek author
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