Capitolo 2
conversations contained with these philosophers that he has applied to him a
expression that has passed since then in a proverb, "mallon I have
Phryx"--"The Phrygian has spoken better than everybody."
On the invitation of Croesus he mended his/her residence to Sardis, and it was
assumed by that monarch in the various difficult and delicate business of
state. In his/her unloading of these errands he visited the different one
small republics of Greece. To a duration he is found in Corinth, and to
another in the Athens, looking for, from the narration of some of his/her wise man
fables, to reconcile the inhabitants of those cities to the
administration of their respective rules, Pariander and Pisistratus.
One of these missions of ambassador, undertaken to the command of
Croesus, was the occasion of his/her death. Has been expeditious to Delphi
with a great gold sum for the distribution among the citizens, he was, this way
provoked to their greed that he has refused to divide the money, and
the expeditious one again to his/her master. The Delphians, angry to this treatment,
the accused of the impiety, and, despite his/her sacred character as
ambassador, executed him/it as a public criminal. This cruel death of AEsop
it was not unrevenged. The citizens of Delphi were visited with a series of
calamity, until them they made a public reparation of their crime; and "The
blood of AEsop" it became a notorious adagio witness that brings to the truth,
that actions of badly they would not pass unpunished. Not even the great ones
lack of fabulist honors posthumous; for a statue it was erect to his/her memory
to Athens, the job of Lysippus, one of the most famous of the Greek
sculptural. Phaedrus immortalizes so the event:--
AEsopo ingentem statuam posuere Attics,
Aeterna of collocarunt of Servumque in bases:
Patere honoris scirent ut cuncti viam;
Nec produces tribui sed virtuti gloriam.
These few facts are that whole can is counted above with some degree of
the certainty, in reference to the birth, the life and death of AEsop. They was
before it brought for turning on, after a patient search and industrious perusal of