Aesop's Fables (Chambry edition)
Chambry 261 = Perry 174
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(variant version from Chambry's first edition)
Παῖς καὶ Τύχη.
Ἐγγὺς φρέατος παῖς τις ἐκοιμᾶτο. Ἐπιστᾶσα δὲ αὐτῷ ἡ
Τύχη ἐβόα· Ἀνάστα καὶ ἄπελθε ἐντεῦθεν, μή πως κάτωθεν τοῦ φρέατος πέσῃς,
καὶ ἐμὲ τὴν Τύχην καταμέμψωνται πάντες.
Ὁ μῦθος δηλοῖ ὅτι πολλάκις σφαλλόμενοι καὶ πράττοντες κακῶς περιπίπτομεν
κινδύνοις καὶ μεμφόμεθα τὴν τύχην.
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. |