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Aesop's Fables (Chambry edition)Chambry 338 = Perry 340 [...] (variant version from Chambry's first edition) Τοξότης καὶ λέων.Ἀνῆλθέ τις ἐν ὄρει κυνηγίου χάριν. Ἰδόντα δὲ αὐτὸν ἅπαντα τὰ θηρία μακρὸν ᾤχοντο· λέων δὲ μόνος πρὸς μάχην μετεκαλεῖτο αὐτόν. Ὁ δὲ τὸ βέλος ἀφεὶς καιρίως τὸν ἰσχυρὸν ἐτραυμάτισεν, εἰπών· Ἰδὲ τὸν ἐμὸν ἄγγελον πρῶτον οἱός ἐστι καὶ αὖθις δὴ τὴν ἐμὴν ἰσχὺν δοκιμάσεις. Ὁ δὲ λέων βληθεὶς φεύγειν ὥρμησε ἀμεταστρεπτί. Ἀλώπηξ δὲ τούτῳ συνήντησε καὶ θαρρεῖν συνεβούλευεν. Ἔφη δὲ οὗτος· Οὐδαμῶς με πλανήσεις, δολία· ἐπεὶ γὰρ τοιοῦτον πικρὸν ἄγγελον ὁ ἄνθρωπος ἔχει, ἐὰν αὐτός μοι ἐπέλθῃ, τί ποιήσω;Ὅτι ἐκ τῆς ἀρχῆς τὸ τέλος δεῖ προιδεῖν καὶ ἑαυτοὺς περισώζειν. 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. |
