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Aesop's Fables (Chambry edition)Chambry 204 = Perry 148
Λέων καὶ λαγωός.Λέων περιτυχών λαγωῷ κοιμωμένῳ, τοῦτον ἔμελλε καταφαγεῖν· μεταξὺ δὲ θεασάμενος ἔλαφον παριοῦσαν, ἀφεὶς τὸν λαγωόν, ἐκείνην ἐδίωκεν. Ὁ μὲν οὖν παρὰ τὸν ψόφον ἐξαναστὰς ἔφυγεν. Ὁ δὲ λέων ἐπὶ πολὺ διώξας τὴν ἔλαφον, ἐπειδὴ καταλαβεῖν οὐκ ἠδυνήθη, ἐπανῆλθεν ἐπὶ τὸν λαγωόν· εὑρων δὲ καὶ αὐτὸν πεφευγότα ἔφη· "Ἀλλ' ἐγὼ δίκαια πέπονθα, ὅτι ἀφεὶς τὴν ἐν χερσὶ βοράν, ἐλπίδα μείζονα προέκρινα."Οὕτως ἔνιοι τῶν ἀνθρώπων μετρίοις κέρδεσι μὴ ἀρκούμενοι, μείζονας δὲ ἐλπίδας διώκοντες λανθάνουσι καὶ τὰ ἐν χερσὶ προϊέμενοι. 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. |
