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Aesop's Fables (Chambry edition)Chambry 225 = Perry 154
Λύκος καὶ ἵππος.Λύκος κατά τινα ἄρουραν ὁδεύων κριθὰς εὗρε· μὴ δυνάμενος δὲ αὐταῖς τροφῇ χρήσασθαι, καταλιπὼν ἀπῄει. Ἴππῳ δὲ συντυχών, τοῦτον ἐπὶ τὴν ἄρουραν ἐπήγαγε λέγων ὡς εὑρὼν κριθὰς αὐτὸς μὲν οὐκ ἔφαγεν, αὐτῷ δὲ ἐφύλαξεν, ἐπεὶ καὶ ἡδέως αὐτοῦ τὸν ψόφον τῶν ὀδόντων α̣κούει. Καὶ ὁ ἵππος ὑποτυχὼν εἰπεν· "Ἀλλ', ὦ οὗτος, εἰ λύκοι κριθῶν τροφῇ χρῆσθαι ἠδύναντο, οὐκ ἄν ποτε τὰ ὦτα τῆς γαστρὸς προέκρινας."Ὁ λόγος δηλοῖ ὅτι οἱ φύσει πονηροί, κἂν χρηστότητα ἐπαγγέλλωνται, οὐ πιστεύονται. 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. |
