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Αἴσωπον (Aisopon)

Αἴσωπον 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 accusative singular masculine noun.

Found 52 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Cicero 5.3: … σθένους 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 τοῦ Θυέστου βουλευόμενον Ἀτρέα, τῶν ὑπηρετῶν …

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.