He had a passion for geography and travellers' tales, for descriptions of natural wonders and ruined cities, and was himself a practised fictitious narrator and fabulist, as other passages in his MSS.
PHAEDRUS, Roman fabulist, was by birth a Macedonian and lived in the reigns of Augustus, Tiberius, Gaius and Claudius.
BEREKHIAH NAQDAN, Jewish fabulist, author of a collection of Fox Fables, written in Hebrew.
recognizing the renowned fabulist, the lion asked Aesop to tell a story before making a meal of him.