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Aesop's Fables (Chambry edition)

Chambry 289 = Perry 197

Ὄφις καὶ γαλῆ καὶ μύες.

Ὄφις καὶ γαλῆ ἔν τινι οἰκίᾳ ἐμάχοντο. Οἱ δὲ ἐνταῦθα μύες ἀεὶ καταναλισκόμενοι ὑπὸ ἀμφοτέρων, ὡς ἐθεάσαντο αὐτοὺς μαχομένους, ἐξῆλθον βαδίζοντες. Ἰδόντες δὲ τοὺς μύας, τότε ἀφέντες τὴν πρὸς ἑαυτοὺς μάχην, ἐπ' ἐκείνους ἐτράπησαν.
Οὕτω καὶ ἐπὶ τῶν πόλεων οἱ ἐν ταῖς τῶν δημαγωγῶν στάσεσιν ἑαυτοὺς παρεισβάλλοντες λανθάνουσιν αὐτοὶ ἑκατέρων παρανάλωμα γινόμενοι. 

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.