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Aesop's Fables (Chambry edition)

Chambry 120 = Perry 108

Ζεὺς καὶ ἄνθρωποι.

Ζεὺς πλάσας ἀνθρώπους ἐκέλευσεν Ἑρμῇ νοῦν αὐτοῖς ἐγχέαι. Κἀκεῖνος μέτρον ποιήσας ἴσον ἐνέχεεν ἑκάστῳ. Συνέβη δὲ τοὺς μὲν μικροφυεῖς πληρωθέντας τοῦ μέτρου φρονίμους γενέσθαι, τοὺς δὲ μακρούς, ἅτε μὴ ἐφικομένου τοῦ ποτῦ [μηδὲ μέχρι γονάτων,] εἰς πᾶν τὸ σῶμα ἀφρονεστέρους γενέσθαι.
Πρὸς ἄνδρα εὐμεγέθη μὲν σώματι, κατὰ ψυχὴν δὲ ἀλόγιστον 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.