Aesop's Fables (Chambry edition)
Chambry 39 = Perry 14
Ἀλώπηξ καὶ πίθηκος
περὶ εὐγενείας ἐρίζοντες.
Ἀλώπηξ καὶ πίθηκος ἐν ταὐτῷ
ὁδοιποροῦντες περὶ εὐγενείας ἤριζον.
Πολλὰ δὲ ἑκατέρου διεξιόντος, ἐπειδὴ
ἐγένοντο κατά τινα τόπον, ἐνταῦθα ἀποβλέψας
ἀνεστέναξεν ὁ πίθηκος. Τῆς δὲ ἀλώπεκος
ἐρομένης τὴν αἰτίαν, ὁ πίθηκος ἐπιδείξας
αὐτῇ τὰ μνήματα, εἶπεν· " Ἀλλ' οὐ μέλλω
κλάειν, ὁρῶν τὰς στήλας τῶν πατρικῶν
μου ἀπελευθέρων καὶ δούλων;" Κἀκείνη
πρὸς αὐτὸν ἔφη· " Ἀλλὰ ψεύδου ὅσα βούλει·
οὐδεὶς γὰρ τούτων ἀναστὰς ἐλέγξει σε."
Οὕτω καὶ τῶν ἀνθρώπων οἱ ψευδολόγοι
τότε μάλιστα καταλαζονεύονται, ὅταν τοὺς
ἐλέγχοντας μὴ ἔχωσιν.
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. |