The Fables of Avianus

Abstract

The dedicatory letter and six fables, all taken from the Loeb edition of Minor Latin Poets II. The fables include The Nurse and her Child, OR, The Wolf and the Kid, The Crab and its Mother, The Ploughman and his Oxen, and The Lion and the Goat. The pamphlet is attractively bound in gold flecked paper and tied with a gold ribbon. My, the things that the fable tradition includes!