asopian

Updated: April 30, 2025

But Racine, the chief pillar of the French, did not begin until Cromwell was dead and gone, and Charles II. was restored. So, here we have the Asopian fable of the lamb troubling the waters for the wolf; or, in the Greek proverb, ano potamon.

Thomas De Quincey - Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 2