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grbs-16086	Mann, Kristin	The Puzzle in Babrius's Prologue	2018	26	.pdf	application/pdf	10217	449	70	All of this—the Golden Age, the soften- ing of the iambs—seems to suggest that Babrius will be solely concerned with the happiest and gentlest of fables. His authorial pose is that of an educator writing fables for his young pupil(s).5 I will argue that Babrius’s fables have a unique pedagogical bent: rather than 3 The contrast between the prologue and the first fable is discussed by Hawkins, Iambic Poetics 134–136.	cache/grbs-16086.pdf	txt/grbs-16086.txt