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Aesop's Fables (Chambry edition)Chambry 112 = Perry 309 Ἑρμοῦ ἅμαξα καὶ Ἄραβες. Ἑρμῆς ποτε ἅμαξαν ψευσμάτων καὶ πανουργίας καὶ ἀπάτης μεστὴν διὰ πάσης ἤλαυνε γῆς, κατὰ χώραν μικρόν τι διανέμων τοῦ φόρτου. Ὡς δὲ εἰς τὴν τῶν Ἀράβων χώραν ἦλθε, λέγεται ἐξαίφνης συντριβῆναι τὴν ἅμαξαν. Οἱ δὲ ὥσπερ πολύτιμον φόρτον τὰ ἐξ αὐτῆς ἁρπάσαντες οὐκ ἀφῆκαν εἰς ἀλλους ἀνθρώπους προελθεῖν. Ὅτι Ἄραβες ὑπὲρ πᾶν ἔθνος ψευσταὶ καὶ ἀπατεῶνες εἰσίν· ἐν γλώσσῃ γὰρ αὐτῶν οὐκ ἔστιν ἀλήθεια. (variant version from Chambry's first edition) Ἑρμοῦ ἅμαξα καὶ Ἄραβες. Ἑρμῆς ποτε ψεύσματα καὶ πανουργίας θεὶς εἴς ἅμαξαν εἰς πᾶσαν γῆν ἀπῄει. Ὡς δὲ Ἀράβων κατήντησε τὴν χώραν, συντρίβει τὴν ἅμαξαν κενὴν φορτίων· οἱ δὲ εἰς ἄλλους τόπους οὐκ εἴασαν ὀδεῦσαι.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. |
