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Aesop's Fables (Chambry edition)Chambry 357 = Perry 272 Ψύλλα καὶ ἄνθρωπος.Ψύλλα δέ ποτέ τινι πολλὰ ἠνώχλει.Καὶ δὴ συλλαβών· "Τίς εἶ σύ, ἀνεβόα, ὅτι πάντα μου μέλη κατεβοσκήσω εἰκῆ καὶ μάτην ἐμὲ καταναλίσκων;" Ἡ δὲ ἐβόα· "Οὕτως ζῶμεν, μὴ κτείνῃς· μέγα γὰρ κακὸν οὐ δύναμαι ποιῆσαι." Ὁ δὲ γελάσας πρὸς αὐτὴν οὕτως ἔφη· "Ἄρτι τεθνήξῃ χερσὶ μου ταῖς ἰδίαις· ἅπαν γὰρ κακόν, οὐ μικρόν, οὐδὲ μέγα οὐδ' ὅλως πρέπει καθόλου που φυῆναι." Ὁ μῦθος δηλοῖ ὅτι ὁ κακὸς οὐ πρέπει ἐλεηθῆναι, κἂν μέγας ᾖ, κἂν μικρός. 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. |
