Aesop's Fables (Chambry edition)
Chambry 147 = Perry 249
Κάμηλος ὀρχουμένη.
Κάμηλος ἀναγκαζομένη ὑπὸ τοῦ
ἰδίου δεσπότου ὀρχήσασθαι εἶπεν· Ἀλλ'
οὐ μόνον ὀρχουμένη εἰμὶ ἄσχημος, ἀλλὰ
καὶ περιπατοῦσα. Ὁ λόγος εἴρηται ἐν
παντὶ ἔργῳ ἀπρέπειαν ἔχοντι.
(variant version from Chambry's first edition)
Κάμηλος ὀρχουμένη.
Κάμηλος ὀρχήσασθαι βιαζομένη
πρὸς τὸν ἀναγκάζοντα δεσπότην ἔφη·
Οὐ μόνον ἄσχημός εἰμι ὀρχουμένη,
ἀλλὰ καὶ περιπατοῦς' ἢ καθημένη.
Ὁ λόγος δηλοῖ ὅτι ὁ ἐν ἑνὶ
ἀδόκιμος καὶ ἐν παντὶ ἀδόκιμός ἐστι.
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. |