The fables of Babrius, in two parts. Translated into English verse from the text of Sir G.C. Lewis. By the Rev. James Davies, M.A. Sometime Scholar of Lincoln College, Oxford

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2 parts in one 8vo. pp. xxxii, 231. “From J. Gewe [?] to his friend Bruno Roberts, June 8, 1901” on front flyleaf. Contains both genuine work of the post-Aesopian fabulist Babrius and, in the second part, forgeries by Minoides Menas. Advised by Sir George Cornewall Lewis (1806-1863), the unwary British Museum bought these pseudo-Babrius texts and archived them as BL MSS Add. 22,087-88. Aware of the lesser quality of this material compared to that of Babrius’s Codex Athous published by Boissonade in 1844 (see Bib# 4103077/Fr# 1486), Lewis nevertheless published the current texts in Greek in 1859. Neither Lewis nor translator James Davies (1820-1883) suspected forgery. The introduction of the present volume by Davies is very useful. Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.