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Source of the fables "The Fox and the Lion" and "The Lion and the Mouse" (5)

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I believe the answer is:

aesop

(Other definitions for aesop that I've seen before include "he wrote in Greek" , "classic author" , "Greek teller of animal tales with a moral" , "story teller" , "his writings were fabulous" .)

I've seen this clue in The New York Times.
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