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  1. Traditional writer of Greek fables. According
  2. to Herodotus he lived in the reign of Amasis
  3. of Egypt (mid-6th century BC) and was a slave
  4. of Iadmon, a Thracian. The fables, for which
  5. no evidence of his
  6. authorship exists, are anecdotal stories
  7. using animal characters to illustrate moral
  8. or satirical points.
  9.