Aesop's Fables (Chambry edition)
Chambry 135 = Perry 128
Ἰκτῖνος καὶ ὄφις.
Ἰκτῖνος ὄφιν ἁρπάσας ἀπέπτατο.
Ὁ δὲ ἐπιστραφεὶς καὶ δακὼν καὶ ἀμφότεροι ἐκ τοῦ ὕψους κατενεχθέντες, ὁ
μὲν ἰκτῖνος ἐτεθνήκει· ὁ δὲ ὄφις ἔφη αὐτῷ· Τί τοσοῦτον ἐμάνης, ὅτι τοὺς
μηδὲν ἀδικοῦντας βλάπτειν ἠβούλου; ἀλλὰ δίκην ἔδωκας τῆς ἁρπαγῆς δικαίαν.
Ὅτι πλεονεξίᾳ τις προσέχων καὶ τοὺς ἀσθενεστέρους ἀδικῶν, ἰσχυροτέρῳ προσπεσών,
ὡς οὐκ ἐλπίζει, ἐκτίσει τότε καὶ ἃ πρότερον ἐποίησε κακά.
(variant version from Chambry's first edition)
Ἰκτῖνος καὶ ὄφις.
Ἰκτῖνος ὄφιν ἁρπάσας εἰς ὕψος ἀπέπτη. Ὁ δὲ ὄφις ἐπιστραφεὶς
καὶ πλήξας τοῦτον, ἀμφοτέρους εἰς γῆν ἀφ' ὕψους πεσεῖν συμβέβηκε. Τοῦ οὖν
ἰκτίνου ἐκ τῆς πληγῆς τεθνηκότος, ὁ ὄφις πρὸς αὐτὸν ἔφη· Τί τοσοῦτον ἐμεμήνεις,
ταλαίπωρε, ὅτι τοὺς μηδὲν ἀδικοῦντας βλάπτειν ἐβούλου; Δικαίως οὖν ἔδωκας
γνώμης δίκην ἀξίαν.
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. |