Meanings of greek fable in anglès

His Apologues are considered the foundation on which Greek fable was reared.

Tantalus, as the old Greek fable tells us, was King of Lydia.

What says the Greek fable of him who became a star?

To her who knew not the old Greek fables those figures looked strangely diabolical.

You remember the old Greek fable, Ruth?

Now "Hercules" is another "myth" you will study about in those old Greek fables called "mythology."

In truth, the difficulty of a foreign tongue dashed as with gall all the sweetness of the Greek fable.

The Greek fable accordingly conveying a character of its authors, throws light on some ages of which no other record remains.

The murderer is hunted from place to place, as the Greek fable has it, by the furies, who suffer him not to rest.

There was great significance in the old Greek fable which represented Venus as the divinely-appointed helpmeet of Vulcan, and yet always quarrelling with him.

This particular enemy is the Caeneus of Greek fable, whom Neptune had rendered invulnerable to the effect of swords and clubs, and whom of rock.

This author brings the Greek feeling back again into the very heart of English life sometimes, or makes an English fact illustrate a Greek fable.

The best general account in English of the origin of the Greek Fable is that of Rutherford in the introduction to his 'Babrius' (London, 1883).