] Phaedrus, I. 26; also in Aesop.

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   ] A fable telling this story is in the collection of Arabic fables which bear the name of Locman, or Lokman, a personage some identify with Aesop himself. Lokman is said to have flourished about 1050 B.C.; and even as the "Phrygian slave"--Aesop was said to have been very ugly, so Lokman is described as "an ugly black slave." See Translator's Preface. Rabelais also has a version of the story of this fable,

    vide Gargantua

   , Book I. ch. xlii.

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    25

   ] Phaedrus, III. 11.

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    26

   ] Phaedrus, III. 12.

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   ]

    The court has suck'd the oyster

   .--The humorous idea of the lawyers, the litigants, and the oyster, is more fully treated in

    Fable IX., Book IX

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