Aesop's Fables, by Avianus

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Aesop's Fables, by Avianus

You can find these stories taken from Avianus in the Legenda:

The Latin text of Aesop's Fables, by Avianus can be found at this address:

http://www.mythfolklore.net/aesopica/avianus/index.htm

Here is the original publication reference for the digitized material online:

Avianus, Fabulae - scanned and formatted by James Marchand from L. Hervieux, Les fabulistes latins, vol. 3 (Paris, 1895), online at the Latin Library (Ad Fontes) . Fables missing from this text are supplied from Bibliotheca Augustana . Avianus is included in the Loeb volume for Minor Latin Poets , vol. 2, with the Latin text and a facing English translation.

Here is some information about Ademar taken from Wikipedia:

Avianus, a Latin writer of fables, placed by some critics in the age of the Antonines, by others as late as the 6th century AD. The 42 fables which bear his name are dedicated to a certain Theodosius, whose learning is spoken of in most flattering terms. He may possibly be Macrobius Theodosius, the author of the Saturnalia; some think he may be the emperor of that name. Nearly all the fables are to be found in Babrius, who was probably Avianus's source of inspiration, but as Babrius wrote in Greek, and Avianus speaks of having made an elegiac version from a rough Latin copy, probably a prose paraphrase, he was not indebted to the original. The fables soon became popular as a school-book.