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Literature: Bradley 1984: 150–3; Hopkins 1993; Rothwell 1995; Champlin 2005.

I will now explain briefly why the genre of fables was invented. Because slavery, being at the mercy of everyone and everything, did not dare to say what it wanted, it transferred its true sentiments into fables and avoided censure by jesting with made-up stories.

 Why does the passage present fable as servile discourse?

 Compare with 4.21, 5.18, 7.8, 7.34, 9.19. Do these fables represent a slave point of view?