Aesop's Fables (Chambry edition)
Chambry 109 = Perry 102
Ἑρμῆς καὶ γῆ.
Ζεὺς πλάσας ἄνδρα καὶ γυναῖκα ἐκέλευσεν Ἑρμῆν ἀγαγεῖν αὐτοὺς
ἐπὶ τὴν Γῆν καὶ δεῖξαι ὅθεν ὀρύξαντες σπήλαιον ποιήσουσι. Τοῦ δὲ τὸ προσταχθὲν
ποιήσαντος, ἡ Γῆ τὸ μὲν πρῶτον ἐκώλυεν. Ὡς δὲ Ἑρμῆς ἠνάγκαζε λέγων τὸν
Δία προστεταχέναι, ἔφη· Ἀλλ' ὀρυσσέτωσαν ὅσον βούλονται· στένοντες γὰρ
αὐτὸ καὶ κλαίοντες ἀποδώσουσι.
Πρὸς τοὺς ῥᾳδίως δανειζομένους, μετὰ λύπης δὲ ἀποδιδόντας ὁ λόγος εὔκαιρος.
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. |