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Aesop's Fables (Chambry edition)Chambry 265 = Perry 180 [...] (variant version from Chambry's first edition) Ὄνος ἅλας βαστάζων.Μικρέμπορός τις ὄνον ἔχων εὐώνους ἅλας ἠγόρασε καὶ σφοδρῶς τὸν ὄνον ἐφόρτωσεν. Ὁ δὲ ὄνος ἄκων ὀλισθήσας εἰς ὕδωρ ἔπεσε, καὶ, λυθέντων τῶν ἁλῶν, ἠλαφρύνθη, εὐκόλως δὲ ἠγέρθη καὶ περιεπάτει ἀκόπως. Ὁ δὲ ἔμπορος πάλιν ἑτέρους ἦλθεν ἀγοράσων καὶ πλεῖον ἢ πρότερον τὸν ὄνον φορτώσας ἦγεν. Ὁ δὲ πάλιν ἑκὼν εἰς τὸ ῥεῖθρον πεσὼν ἠλαφρύνθη. Ὁ δὲ ἔμπορος τέχνην ἑτέραν νοήσας σπόγγους ὠνησάμενος πεφορτώκεν τὸν ὄνον. Ὁ δὲ ὄνος, ὡς προσῆλθε τῷ ῥείθρῳ, ἑκὼν κατέπεσε· τῶν δὲ σπόγγων διαβραχέντων, βάρος διπλοῦν ἦγε βαστάζων.Ὅτι πολλάκις ἐν ᾧ τις εὐτύχησεν, ἐν αὐτῷ καὶ πίπτει. 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. |
