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
by [Menas, George C. (George Cornewall) Lewis, James (ed.) (trans.) Davies, Babrius., Konstantinos] [Minas
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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.
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