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Aesop's Fables (Chambry edition)

Chambry 172 = Perry 54

Κοχλίαι.

Γεωργοῦ παῖς κοχλίας ὤπτα· ἀκούσας δὲ αὐτῶν τριζόντων ἔφη· "Ὦ κάκιστα ζῷα, τῶν οἰκιῶν ὑμῶν ἐμπιπραμένων, αὐτοὶ ᾄδετε."
Ὁ λόγος δηλοῖ ὅτι πᾶν τὸ παρὰ καιρὸν δρώμενον ἐπονείδιστον.

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.