"Nunc fabularum cur sit inventum genus, Brevi decebo. Servitus obnoxia, Quia, quae volebat, non audebat dicere, Affectus proprios in fabellas transtulit. Aesopi illius semita feci viam."
— Fiction

January 1, 1970

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Attend me briefly while I now disclose How art of fable telling first arose. Unhappy slaves, in servitude confined, Dared not to harsh masters show their mind, But under veiling of fable’s dress Contrived their thoughts and feelings to express, Escaping still their lords’ affronted wrath. So Aesop did; I widen out his path. — Phaedrus, as cited in Giambattista Vico, New Science, T. Bergin, trans. (1984), p. 136