Aesop's Fables (Chambry edition)
Chambry 47 = Perry 245
Ἀνὴρ δειλὸς καὶ κόρακες.
Ἀνὴρ δειλὸς ἐπὶ πόλεμον ἐξῄει.
Φθεγξαμένων δὲ κοράκων, τὰ ὅπλα θεὶς ἡσχαζεν, εἶτ' ἀναλαβὼν αὖθις ἐξῄει,
καὶ φθεγγομένων πάλιν, ὑπέστη καὶ τέλος εἶπεν· Ὑμεῖς κεκράξεσθε μὲν ὡς
δύνασθε μέγιστον· ἐμοῦ δὲ οὐ γεύσεσθε. Ὁ μῦθος περὶ τῶν σφόδρα δειλῶν.
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. |