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Aesop's Fables (Chambry edition)

Chambry 65 = Perry 40

Ἀστρολόγος.

Ἀστρολόγος ἐξιὼν ἑκάστοτε ἑσπέρας ἔθος εἶχε τοὺς ἀστέρας ἐπισκοπῆσαι. Καὶ δή ποτε περιιὼν εἰς τὸ προάστειον καὶ τὸν νοῦν ὅλον ἔχων πρὸς τὸν οὐρανὸν ἔλαθε καταπεσὼν εἰς φρέαρ. Ὀδυρομένου δὲ αὐτοῦ καὶ βοῶντος, παριών τις, ὡς ἤκουσε τῶν στενάγμων, προσελθὼν καὶ μαθὼν τὰ συμβεβηκότα, ἔφη πρὸς αὐτόν· Ὦ οὗτος, σὺ τὰ ἐν οὐρανῷ βλέπειν πειρώμενος τὰ ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς οὐχ ὁρᾷς;
Τούτῳ τῷ λόγῳ χρήσαιτο ἄν τις ἐπ' ἐκείνων τῶν ἀνθρώπων οἳ παραδόξως ἀλαζονεύονται, μηδὲ τὰ κοινὰ τοῖς ἀνθρώποις ἐπιτελεῖν δυνάμενοι.

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.