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Aesop's Fables (Chambry edition)Chambry 346 = Perry 271 Χειμὼν καὶ ἔαρ.Χειμὼν ἔσκωψε εἰς τὸ ἔαρ καὶ αὐτὸ ὠνείδισεν ὅτι εὐθὺς φανέντος ἡσυχίαν ἄγει ἔτι οὐδείς, ἀλλ' ὁ μέν τις ἐπὶ λειμῶνας καὶ ἄλση γίνεται, ὅτῳ ἄρα φίλον δρέπεσθαι ἀνθέων καὶ κρίνων, ἢ καὶ ῥόδον τι περιαγαγεῖν τε τοῖς ἑαυτοῦ ὄμμασιν, καὶ παραθέσθαι [ἣ] παρὰ τὴν κόμην· ὁ δὲ ἐπιβὰς νεὼς καὶ διαβαίνων πέλαγος, ἂν τύχῃ, παρ' ἄλλους ἤδη ἀνθρώπους ἔρχεται· καὶ ὅτι ἅπαντες ἀνέμων ἢ πολλοῦ ἐξ ὄμβρων ὕδατος ἔχουσι φροντίδα οὐκέτι. Ἐγώ, ἔφη, ἄρχοντι καὶ αὐτοδεσπότῃ ἔοικα, καὶ οὐδὲ εἰς οὐρανόν, ἀλλὰ κάτω που καὶ εἰς τὴν γῆν ἐπιτάττω βλέπειν καὶ δεδιέναι καὶ τρέμειν καὶ ἀγαπητῶς διημερεύειν ἔστιν ὅτε οἶκοι ἠνάγκασα. -- Τοιγαροῦν, ἔφη τὸ ἔαρ, σοῦ μὲν κἂν ἀπαλλαγεῖεν ἄνθρωποι ἀσμένως· ἐμοῦ δὲ αὐτοῖς καλὸν καὶ αὐτὸ εἶναι δοκεῖ τοὔνομα, καὶ νὴ μὰ Δία γε ὀνομάτων κάλλιστον, ὅστε καὶ ἀπόντος μέμνηνται καὶ φανέντος ἐπαγάλλονται.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. |
