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Romulus is the author, now considered a legendary figure, [1] of versions of Aesop's Fables in Latin. These were passed down in Western Europe, and became important school texts, for early education. These were passed down in Western Europe, and became important school texts, for early education.
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Aesop (left) as depicted by Francis Barlow in the 1687 edition of Aesop's Fables with His Life.. Aesop's Fables, or the Aesopica, is a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and storyteller who lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 564 BCE.
Aesop and the Ferryman; List of Aesop's Fables; Androcles; The Ant and the Grasshopper; The Ape and the Fox; The Ass and his Masters; The Ass and the Pig; The Ass Carrying an Image; The Ass in the Lion's Skin; The Astrologer who Fell into a Well
A century after the first appearance of his collection, the fables were reused with new commentaries in Aesop's fables: accompanied by many hundred proverbs & moral maxims suited to the subject of each fable (Dublin 1821). There it is titled "The Farmer and the Carter" and headed with the maxim 'If you will obtain, you must attempt'.
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The earliest English account of the story as a separate fable appears in Roger L'Estrange's Fables of Aesop (1692) under the title "The Moon Begs a New Gown", but in his case the moral given is that "the Humour of many People [is] to be perpetually Longing for something or other that's not to be had", since "there is no Measure to be taken of an Unsteady Mind". [4]