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Aesop's Fables (Chambry edition)

Chambry 44 = Perry 278

Ἄνδρες δύο περὶ θεῶν ἐρίζοντες.

Ἄνδρες δύο ἐμάχοντο τίνες τῶν θεῶν μείζους, Θησεὺς ἢ Ἡρακλῆς. Οἱ δὲ θεοὶ ὀργισθέντες αὐτοῖς ἑκάτερος τὴν ἑτέρου χώραν ἠμύνατο.
Ὅτι τῶν ὑπεξουσίων ἡ ἔρις τοὺς δεσπότας πείθει ὀργίλους εἶναι κατὰ τῶν ὑπηκόων.

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.