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Aesop's Fables (Chambry edition)Chambry 144 = Perry 321 Κάμηλος ἀφοδεύσασα ἐν ποταμῷ. Διέβαινε ποταμὸν κάμηλος ὀξὺ ῥέοντα. Ἀφοδεύσασα δὲ καὶ τὴν κόπρον εὐθὺς ἔμπροσθεν αὐτῆς ἰδοῦσα διὰ τὸ ὀξὺ τοῦ ῥεύματος εἶπεν· Τί τοῦτο; τὰ ὄπισθέν μου ἔμπροσθέν μου νῦν ὁρῶ διερχόμενα. [Ὅτι] ἐν πόλει ἐν ᾗ ἔσχατοι καὶ ἄφρονες κρατοῦσιν ἀντὶ τῶν πρώτων καὶ φρονίμων ἁρμόζει ὁ μῦθος. (variant version from Chambry's first edition) Κάμηλος ἀφοδεύσασα ἐν ποταμῷ. Διέβαινέ ποτε κάμηλος ποταμὸν ὀξὺ διαρρέοντα. Ἀφοδεύσασα δὲ καὶ τὴν κόπρον αὑτῆς ἔμπροσθεν κατιδοῦσα τῇ τοῦ ὕδατος ὀξυτάτῃ καταρροῇ· Τί τοῦτο; ἔφη, τὰ ἐξόπισθέν μου νῦν ἔμπροσθέν μου τεθέαμαι.Ὅτι πολλάκις οἱ ἄτιμοι τῶν τιμίων προάγουσι. 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. |
