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Aesop's Fables (Chambry edition)Chambry 138 = Perry 318 Ἴππος γέρων. Γέρων ἵππος ἐπράθη πρὸς τὸ ἀλήθειν. Ζευχθεὶς δὲ ἐν τῷ μυλῶνι στενάζων εἶπεν· Ἐκ ποίων δρόμων εἰς οἵους καμπτῆρας ἦλθον. Ὅτι μὴ λίαν ἐπαιρέσθω τις πρὸς τὸ τῆς ἀκμῆς ἢ τῆς δόξης δυνατόν· πολλοῖς γὰρ τὸ γῆρας ἐν κόποις ἀνηλώθη. (variant version from Chambry's first edition) Ἴππος γέρων. Γέροντι ἵππῳ πολλὰ κεκμηκότι ταῖς στρατηγίαις τε καὶ ἱππηλασίαις ἡ τοῦ μυλῶνος ἀτέλεστος καὶ σφαιροειδὴς διεδέξατο χώρα, πολλὴν ἔχουσα τὴν δυσπάθειαν. Ὁ δὲ στενάζων εἶπεν· Οἴμοι ἐγώ· ἐκ ποίας ταχυδρόμου ὁρμῆς ἐν ποίῳ μεθηρμόσθην καμπτῆρι πολυμόχθῳ.Ὅτι οὐ δίκαιον τὸ ἐπαίρεσθαι ἐπί τινι εὐημερίᾳ ἢ γενναιότητι. 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. |
