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Aesop's Fables (Chambry edition)

Chambry 148 = Perry 195

Κάμηλος τὸ πρῶτον ὀφθείς.

Ὅτε πρῶτον κάμηλος ὤφθη, οἱ ἄνθρωποι φοβηθέντες καὶ τὸ μέγεθος καταπλαγέντες ἔφευγον. Ὡς δέ, χρόνου προιόντος, συνεῖδον αὐτῆς τὸ πρᾷον, ἐθάρρησαν μέχρι τοῦ προσελθεῖν. Αἰσθόμενοι δὲ κατὰ μικρὸν ὡς χολὴν τὸ ζῷον οὐκ ἔχει, εἰς τοῦτο καταφρονήσεως ἦλθον ὥστε καὶ χαλινὸν αὐτῇ περιθέντες παισὶν ἐλαύνειν αὐτὴν ἔδωκαν. Ὁ λόγος δηλοῖ ὅτι τὰ φοβερὰ τῶν πραγμάτων ἡ συνήθεια καταπραΰνει.


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.