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Αἰσώπῳ (Aisopo)

Αἰσώπῳ is an Ancient Greek form of Αἴσωπος, meaning “Aisopos — a writer of Fables, a species of composition which has been defined " analogical narratives… (and others of the name)”. It is the dative singular masculine noun.

Found 27 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Cicero 5.3: … ται δὲ καὶ αὐτὸς οὐδὲν ἧττον νοσήσας τοῦ Δημοσθένους πρὸς τὴν ὑπόκρισιν, τοῦτο μὲν Ῥωσκίῳ τῷ κωμῳδῷ, τοῦτο δʼ Αἰσώπῳ τῷ τραγῳδῷ προσέχειν ἐπιμελῶς. τόν δʼ Αἴσωπον τοῦτον ἱστοροῦσιν ὑποκρινόμενον ἐν θεάτρῳ τόν περὶ τῆς τιμωρίας …

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.