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Aesop's Fables (Chambry edition)

Chambry 5 = Perry 2

Ἀετὸς καὶ κολοιὸς καὶ ποιμήν.

Ἀετὸς καταπὰς ἀπό τινος ὑψηλῆς πέτρας ἄρνα ἥρπασε· κολοιὸς δὲ τοῦτο θεασάμενος διὰ ζῆλον τοῦτον μιμήσασθαι ἠθέλησε· καὶ δὴ καθεὶς ἑαυτὸν μετὰ πολλοῦ ῥοίζου ἐπὶ κριὸν ἠνέχθῃ. Ἐμπαρέντων δὲ αὐτοῦ τῶν ὀνύχων τοῖς μάλλοις, ἐξαρθῆναι μὴ δυνάμενος ἐπτερύσσετο ἕως ὁ ποιμήν, τὸ γεγονὸς αἰσθόμενος, προσδραμὼν συνέλαβεν αὐτὸν καὶ περικόψας αὐτοῦ τὰ ὀξυπτερά, ὡς ἑσπέρα κατέλαβε, τοῖς ἑαυτοῦ παισὶν ἐκόμισε. Τῶν δὲ πυνθανομένων τί εἴη τὸ ὄρνεον, ἔφη· "Ὡς μὲν ἐγὼ σαφῶς οἶδα, κολοιός, ὡς δὲ αὐτὸς βούλεται, ἀετός."
Οὕτως ἡ πρὸς τοὺς ὑπερέχοντας ἅμιλλα, πρὸς τῷ μηδὲν ἀνύειν, καὶ ἐπὶ συμφοραῖς προσκτᾶται γέλωτα.

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.