The corpus record — Latin

Aesopus

Aesopus · m

Æsop

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Where it lives

Fabulae Aesopiae 25 · 22.8/10k
De Pallio 1 · 2.92/10k
Letters to and from Quintus 3 · 1.63/10k
Adversus Valentinianos 1 · 1.57/10k
Epistularum 1 · 1.1/10k
Epistulae 1 · 1.01/10k
Satyrarum libri 1 · 0.7/10k
Pro P. Sestio 1 · 0.6/10k
Tusculanae Disputationes 3 · 0.53/10k
De Divinatione 1 · 0.36/10k
Noctes Atticae 4 · 0.36/10k
De Officiis 1 · 0.3/10k

Densest 12 of 20 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

Aesōpus — Lewis & Short

Aesōpus, i, m., = *ai)/swpos.

I Æsop, the Greek fabulist of Phrygia, in the time of Crœsus; cf. Phaedr. 5 prol. The difference between Æsopic and Libystic fables, v. under Aesopicus.—Cf. Quint. 5, 11, 19; Gell. 2, 29.—

II A tragic actor, friend of Cicero: noster Aesopus, Cic. Fam. 7, 1; Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 82; cf. Cic. Tusc. 4, 25; id. Div. 1, 37.

Where it came from

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