Aesop's Fables (Chambry edition)
Chambry 93 = Perry 326
Δειλὸς κυνηγὸς
καὶ δρυτόμος.
Λέοντός τις κυνηγὸς ἴχνη ἐπεζήτει·
δρυτόμον δὲ ἐρωτήσας εἰ εἶδεν ἴχην λέοντος
καὶ ποῦ κοιτάζει, ἐφη· Καὶ αὐτὸν τὸν
λέοντά σοι ἤδη δείξω. Ὁ δὲ ὠχριάσας
ἐκ τοῦ φόβου καὶ τοὺς ὀδόντας συγκρούων
εἶπεν· Ἴχνη μόνα ζητῶ, οὐχὶ αὐτὸν τὸν
λέοντα.
[Ὅτι] τοὺς θρασεῖς καὶ δειλοὺς ὁ μῦθος
ἐλέγχει, τοὺς τολμηροὺς ἐν τοῖς λόγοις
καὶ οὐκ ἐν τοῖς ἔργοις.
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. |