Aesop's Fables (Chambry edition)
Chambry 70 = Perry 45
Βόες καὶ ἄξων.
Βόες ἅμαξαν εἷλκον.
Τοῦ δὲ ἄξονος τρίζοντος, ἐπιστραφέντες
ἔφασαν οὕτως πρὸς αὐτόν· Ὦ οὗτος, ἡμῶν
τὸ ὅλον βάρος φερόντων, σὺ κέκραγας;
Οὕτω καὶ τῶν ἀνθρώπων ἔνιοι, μοχθούντων
ἑτέρων, αὐτοὶ προσποιοῦνται κάμνειν.
(variant version from Chambry's first edition)
Βοηλάτης καὶ ἅμαξα.
Ἐν πόλει μεγίστην ταῦροι ἅμαξαν
εἷλκον· ἡ δὲ ἔτριζεν ἰσχυρῶς. Θυμωθεὶς
οὖν ὁ βοηλάτης εἶπεν αὐτῇ· Ὦ κακὸν κτῆμα,
τί κράζεις, βίᾳ τῶν ἑλκόντων σε βοῶν
σιωπώντων;
Ὅτι τινὲς ἐπ' ἀλλοτρίοις πόνοις καὶ
πλούτῳ καυχώμενοι μέγα φρονοῦσιν ὡς
αὐτοὶ χειμασθέντες ἐν αὐτοῖς.
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. |