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Aesop's Fables (Chambry edition)Chambry 8 = Perry 4 Ἀηδὼν καὶ ἱέραξ. Ἀηδὼν ἐπί τινος ὑψηλῆς δρυὸς καθημένη κατὰ τὸ σύνηθες ᾖδεν. Ἰέραξ δὲ αὐτὴν θεασάμενος, ὡς ἠπόρει τροφῆς, ἐπιπτὰς συνέλαβεν. Ἡ δὲ μέλλουσα ἀναιρεῖσθαι ἐδέετο αὐτοῦ μεθεῖναι αὐτήν, λέγουσα ὡς οὐχ ἱκανή ἐστιν ἱέρακος αὐτὴ γαστέρα πληρῶσαι: δεῖ δὲ αὐτόν, εἰ τροφῆς ἀπορεῖ, ἐπὶ τὰ μείζονα τῶν ὀρνέων τρέπεσθαι. Καὶ ὅς ὑποτυχὼν εἶπεν: " Ἀλλ' ἔγωγε ἀπόπληκτος ἂν εἴην, εἰ τὴν ἐν χερσὶν ἑτοίμην βορὰν παρεὶς τὰ μηδέπω φαινόμενα διώκοιμι. "Οὕτος καὶ τῶν ἀνθρώπων ἀλόγιστοί εἰσιν οἷ δι' ἐλπίδα μειζόνων [πραγμάτων] τὰ ἐν χερσὶν ὄντα προΐενται. 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. |
