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Aesop's Fables (Chambry edition)

Chambry 323 = Perry 369

Ῥόδον καὶ ἀμάραντον.

Ῥόδῳ παραφυὲν ἀμάραντον ἔφη· Οἷον ἄνθος εὐπρεπὲς εἶ, καὶ ποθητὸν καὶ θεοῖς καὶ ἀνθρώποις· μακαρίζω σε τοῦ κάλλους καὶ τῆς εὐωδίας. Τὸ δὲ εἶπεν· Ἐγὼ μέν, ὦ ἀμάραντον, πρὸς ὀλίγον καιρὸν ζῶ, καί, κἂν μηδεὶς ἐκκόψῃ με, τήκομαι· σὺ δὲ ἀνθεῖς καὶ ζῇς ἀεὶ οὕτω νέον. Ὅτι κρεῖσσον ὀλιγαρκούμενόν τινα διαμένειν ἢ πρὸς ὀλίγον τρυφήσαντα μεταβολῆς δυστυχοῦς τυχεῖν ἢ καὶ ἀποθανεῖν.


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.