Aesopus

I see the name given as Aesopus Island, but, so far, I've been unable to find that name on a map, and I'm beginning to suspect it's a name he created.

Deceit, Blood, and Opera greygirlbeast 2009

My thanks to Sonya (sovay) for figuring out that Crowley's Hudson River "Aesopus Island" is now (and may have been then) "Esopus Island."

"Every Day I Write the Book" docbrite 2009

'Aesopus auctor quam materiam repperit, hanc ego polivi versibus senariis'; iv. prol.

The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

'Recte necne crocum floresque perambulet Attae fabula si dubitem, clament periisse pudorem cuncti paene patres, ea cum reprendere coner quae gravis Aesopus, quae doctus Roscius egit.'

The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

They were probably more advantageous than would have been granted by Gates had he entertained no apprehension from Sir Henry Clinton, who was at length making the promised diversion on the North river, up which he had penetrated as far as Aesopus.

Life and Times of Washington Schroeder, J. F. 1903

General Vaughan, after burning Continental village, where stores to a considerable amount had been deposited, proceeded at the head of a strong detachment up the river to Aesopus, which he also destroyed.

Life and Times of Washington Schroeder, J. F. 1903

He left the Achaeans by the banks of the river Aesopus, and went to the city bearing a message of peace to the Cadmeians; on his return thence, with your help, goddess, he did great deeds of daring, for you were his ready helper.

The Iliad of Homer 1898

When they had got as far the deep-meadowed and rush-grown banks of the Aesopus, the Achaeans sent Tydeus as their envoy, and he found the Cadmeans gathered in great numbers to a banquet in the house of Eteocles.

The Iliad of Homer 1898

Grenicus, Aesopus, and goodly Scamander, with Simois, where many a shield and helm had fallen, and many a hero of the race of demigods had bitten the dust.

The Iliad of Homer 1898

What charming glimpses you catch from the window as the train winds along the valley of the French Broad from Asheville, or climbs the southern Catskills beside the Aesopus, or slides down the Pusterthal with the Rienz, or follows the Glommen and the Gula from Christiania to

Little Rivers; a book of essays in profitable idleness Henry Van Dyke 1892