[Gutenberg 25512] • The Fables of Phædrus / Literally translated into English prose with notes

Animal fables are said to have originated with Aesop, a semilegendary Samian slave, but the earliest surviving record of the fables comes from the Latin poet Phaedrus, who introduced the new genre to Latin literature. This verse translation of The Fables was the first in English in more than two hundred years.