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Aesop's Fables (Chambry edition)

Chambry 252 = Perry 262

Ξύλα καὶ ἐλαία.

Ξύλα ποτὲ ἐπορεύθη τοῦ χειροτονῆσαι ἐφ' ἑαυτῶν βασιλέα καὶ εἶπαν τῇ ἐλαίᾳ· Βασίλευσον ἐφ' ἡμῶν. Καὶ εἶπεν αὐτοῖς ἡ ἐλαία· Ἀφεῖσα τὴν πιότητά μου ἣν ἐδόξασεν ἐν ἐμοὶ ὁ θεὸς καὶ οἱ ἄνθρωποι, πορευθῶ ἄρχειν τῶν ξύλων; Καὶ εἶπαν τὰ ξύλα τῇ συκῇ· Δεῦρο, βασίλευσον ἐφ' ἡμῶν. Καὶ εἶπεν αὐτὴ ἡ συκῆ· Ἀφεῖσα τὴν γλυκύτητά μου καὶ τὸ γέννημά μου τὸ ἀγαθόν, πορευθῶ τοῦ ἄρχειν τῶν ξύλων; Καὶ εἶπαν τὰ ξύλα πρὸς τὴν ῥάμνον· Δεῦρο, βασίλευσον ἐφ' ἡμῶν. Καὶ εἶπεν ἡ ῥαμνος πρὸς τὰ ξύλα· Εἰ ἐν ἀληθείᾳ ὑμεῖς χρίετέ με εἰς βασιλέα ἐφ' ὑμῶν, δεῦτε ὑπόστητε ἐν τῇ σκέπῃ μου· καὶ εἰ μή, ἐξέλθοι πῦρ ἐκ τῆς ῥάμνον καὶ καταφάγοι τὰς κέδρους τοῦ Λιβάνου.
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.