Aesop's Fables (Chambry edition)
Chambry 347 = Perry 227
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(variant version from Chambry's first edition)
Χελιδὼν καὶ δράκων.
Ξένη χελιδὼν ἡ τοῖς ἀνθρώποις συνοικοῦσα ἐν δικαστηρίῳ
τὴν καλιὰν ἑαυτῆς ἔπηξεν ἐν τοίχῳ, κἀκεῖσε νεοττῶν ἕπτα γίνεται μήτηρ. Ὄφις
δὲ ἐκ τρώγλης συρεὶς πάντας κατέφαγεν. Ἡ δὲ χελιδὼν θρηνοῦσα· Οἴμοι, ἔλεγεν,
ὅτι ἔνθα πάντες δικαιοῦνται, ἐγὼ ἠδικήθην.
Τοὺς ἀδίκῳ γνώμῃ τυραννοῦντας τοὺς πέλας ἐν παραβάσει νόμου ὁ μῦθος ἐλέγχει.
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. |