Æsop (Æ`sop) , a celebrated Greek fabulist of the 6th century B.C., of whose history little is known except that he was originally a slave, manumitted by Iadmon of Samos, and put to death by the Delphians, probably for some witticism at their expense.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Aeson * Æso`pus