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Aesop's Fables (Chambry edition)

Chambry 100 = Perry 303

Δρυτόμοι καὶ πεύκη.

Δρυτόμοι ἔσχιζόν τινα πεύκην· σφῆνας δὲ ἐξ αὐτῆς πεποιηκότες εὐκόλως ἔσχιζον. Ἡ δὲ εἶπεν· "Οὐ τοσοῦτον τὸν κόψαντα πέλεκυν μέμφομαι ὅσον τοὺς ἐξ ἐμοῦ γεννηγέντας σφῆνας." Ὅτι οὐ τοσοῦτόν ἐστι δεινόν, ὅτε τις ὑπὸ ἀλλοτρίων ἀνθρώπων πάθῃ τι τῶν ἀπαισίων ὅσον ὑπὸ τῶν οἰκείων.

(this version was the primary selection in Chambry's first edition)

Δρυοτόμοι καὶ δρῦς.

Δρυοτόμοι δρῦν ἔσχιζον· οἱ δὲ ἐξ αὐτῆς σφῆνας ποιήσαντες ἔσχιζον αὐτὴν εὐκόλως. Ἡ δὲ ἔφη· Οὐ τοσοῦτον τὸν κόψαντά με πέλεκυν μέμφομαι ὅσον τοὺς ἐξ ἐμοῦ φυέντας σφῆνας.
Ὅτι δεινότερόν ἐστι λύπη, ὅταν τις ὑπὸ τῶν συγγενῶν πάθῃ τι ἢ παρὰ τῶν ἀλλοτρίων.

Chambry published a multivolume edition of the fables for the Belles Lettres series in 1925/6 (Paris). He later revised this into a single volume, omitting hundreds of the fable variants. In addition, the numeration between these two volumes is not consistent. The texts here are taken from the 1925/6 edition, but the numeration follows the stanard single volume edition.