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Aesop's Fables (Chambry edition)
Chambry 20 = Perry 281
Ἀλέκτορες δύο
καὶ ἀετός.
Ἀλετόρων δύο μαχομένων περὶ
θηλειῶν ὀρνίθων, ὁ εἷς τὸν ἕτερον κατετροπώσατο.
Καὶ ὁ μὲν ἡττηθεὶς εἰς τόπον κατάσκιον
ἀπιὼν ἐκρύβη· ὁ δὲ νικήσας εἰς ὕψος
ἀρθεὶς καὶ ἐφ' ὑψηλοῦ τοίχου στὰς μεγαλοφώνως
ἐβόησε. Καὶ παρευθὺς ἀετὸς καταπτὰς
ἥρπασεν αὐτόν. Ὁ δ' ἐν σκότῳ κεκρυμμένος
ἀδεῶς ἔκτοτε ταῖς θηλείαις ἐπέβαινε.
Ὁ μῦθος δηλοῖ ὅτι Κύριος ὑπερηφάνοις
ἀντιτάσσεται, ταπεινοῖς δὲ δίδωσι χάριν.
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. |
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