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Aesop's Fables (Chambry edition)Chambry 140 = Perry 319 Ἴππος καὶ ἱπποκόμος. Κριθὴν τὴν τοῦ ἵππου ὁ ἱπποκόμος κλέπτων καὶ πωλῶν τὸν ἵππον ἔτριβεν, ἐκτένιζεν πᾶσαν ἡμέραν. Ἔφη δὲ ὁ ἵππος· Εἰ θέλεις ἀληθῶς καλὸν εἶναί με, τὴν κριθὴν τὴν τρέφουσάν με μὴ πώλει. Ὅτι οἱ πλεονέκται τοῖς πιθανοῖς λόγοις καὶ ταῖς κολακείαις τοὺς πένητας δελεάζοντες ἀποστεροῦσιν αὐτοὺς καὶ τῆς ἀναγκαίας χρείας. (variant version from Chambry's first edition) Ἴππος καὶ ἱπποκόμος. Κριθὰς τοῦ ἵππου ὁ ἱπποκόμος κλέπτων διεπώλει, τὸν δὲ ἵππον ψήκτραι διέτριβε. Ὁ δὲ εἶπεν· Εἰ θέλεις ὡραῖον εἶναί με, τὰς κριθὰς ἃς ἐσθίω μὴ κλέπτε.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. |
