Babrius

Babrius was the author who recast the Aesopic fable tradition into polished Greek verse, using the choliambic ("limping iambic") meter. His collection of animal fables, each closing with a moral, is one of the principal surviving sources for the ancient fable. Little is securely known about his life: he probably wrote in the 1st or 2nd century CE, likely of Roman or Italian background composing in Greek, perhaps in the Roman East such as Syria. He dedicated his work to a boy and addressed a "King Alexander," though these figures cannot be firmly identified.