biography
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Phaedrus or Phaeder
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pronunciation:
[feedrus, feeder]
| biography:
| The translator of Aesop's fables into Latin verse, born a slave in Macedonia. He went to Italy, where he was the freedman of Emperor Augustus. He published five books of fables, many his own invention, which were still widely read in mediaeval Europe. |
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