conteur de fables 'fabulist

2. U7i second Eodilard, from 'rodere lardum', 'gnaw bacon' 'Rodilard the second'. La Fontaine bas already spoken of a Rodilardus in Book II. fable 3. This fable is not in this collection. Rodilardus is the cat spoken of in Rabelais' Gargantua, Livre IV. Chapter LXVI. The word Rodilardus is of Rabelais's invention.