Αἴσωπος

A Samian or Sardian, though Eugeiton¹ said that he was a Mesembrian,² and others [call him] a Phrygian from Kotiaiaon. He became a logopoios, which is an inventor of stories and responses. Being welcomed at [the palace of] Croesus he spent time there, in the era before Pythagoras; the midpoint of his life was the 40th Olympiad.³ He wrote about the things which happened to him at Delphi↗ in 2 books. But some say, rather, that Aesop has only written responses. For [they say that] he perished unjustly in Delphi↗ having been thrown off a precipice from the rocks called the Phaidriades⁴ in the 54th Olympiad.⁵ [Some say that] Aesop became the slave of Xanthus the Lydian, while others say [that he became the slave] of a certain Samian, Iadmon, who also had a female slave Rhodopis; Charaxos the brother of Sappho took her, a Thracian by race, as his wife after she had spent time as a hetaira, and he had children by her.⁶