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Aesop's Fables (Chambry edition)

Chambry 312 = Perry 206

(variant version from Chambry's first edition)

Ποιμὴν καὶ σκύλαξ.

Ποιμὴν σκύλακα εἰώθει τρέφειν ἐκ τῶν θνῃσκόντων προβάτων. Καὶ δή ποτε ἐγγὺς ἀμνάδος νοσούσης ἱστάμενον εἶδε τὸν κύνα, κατηφῆ καὶ δοκοῦντα δοκρύειν, καὶ ὁμαλίζων αὐτὸν εἶπεν· Καλῶς ποιεῖς συμπαθῶν· πλὴν ἀλλὰ μὴ γένοιτο μηδὲ συμβαίη ὅπερ θέλεις.
Ὅτι τοιοῦτός ἐστι πᾶς ὃς κληρονόμος ἐστὶν οὐσίας, τῷ νοσοῦντι συναλγῶν καὶ προσποιούμενος κλαίειν ὑπούλως. 


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.