BABRIUS, BABRIAS, or GABRIAS, an ancient Greek fabulist, whose metrical tales are quoted by Suidas and others. Fragments only of them were known until lately, when M. Minoide Mynas discovered a MS. copy in the convent of St Lawrence on Mount Athos, and transcribed 123 of them, which were first published at Paris in 1844, by Boissonade, with a Latin translation. Babrius probably flourished about the Augustan era. His fables have since been edited by Lachmann, Berol. 1845; by Orelli and Baiter, Turic. 1845; and by G. C. Lewis, Lond. 1847.