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Aesop's Fables (Chambry edition)Chambry 134 = Perry 114
Ἰατρὸς καὶ νοσῶν. Ἰατρὸς νοσοῦντα ἐθεράπευε. Τοῦ δὲ νοσοῦντος ἀποθανόντος, ἐκεῖνος πρὸς τοὺς ἐκκομίζοντας ἔλεγεν· Οὗτος ὁ ἄνθρωπος, εἰ οἴνου ἀπείχετο καὶ κλυστῆρσιν ἔχρητο, οὐκ ἂν ἐτεθνήκει. Τῶν δὲ παρόντων ὑπολαβών τις ἔφη· Ὦ βέλτιστε, οὐκ ἔδει σε ταῦτα νῦν λέγειν, ὅτε μηδὲν ὄφελός ἐστιν, ἀλλὰ τότε παραινεῖν, ὅτε τούτοις χρῆσθαι ἠδύνατο. Ὁ μῦθος δηλοῖ ὅτι δεῖ τοὺς φίλους ἐν καιρῷ ἀνάγκης τὰς βοηθείας παρέχειν καὶ μὴ μετὰ τῶν πραγμάτων ἀπόγνωσιν κατειρωνεύεσθαι. (this version was the primary selection in Chambry's first edition) Ἰατρὸς καὶ νοσῶν. Ἰατρὸς ἐκκομιζομένῳ τινὶ τῶν οἰκείων ἐπακολουθῶν ἔλεγε πρὸς τοὺς προπέμποντας ὡς οὗτος ὁ ἄνθρωπος, εἰ οἴνου ἀπείχετο καὶ κλυστῆρσιν ἐχρήσατο, οὐκ ἂν ἀπέθανε. Τούτων δέ τις ὑποτυχὼν ἔφη· Ὦ οὗτος, ἀλλ' οὐ νῦν σε ἔδει ταῦτα λέγειν, ὅτε οὐδὲν ὄφελος, τότε δὲ παραινεῖν, ὅτε καὶ χρῆσθαι ἠδύνατο. 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. |
