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Aesop's Fables (Chambry edition)Chambry 173 = Perry 399 Κύκνος ἀντὶ χηνὸς ἀπαχθείς. Ανὴρ εὐπορῶν χῆνά τε ἅμα καὶ κύκνον ἔτρεφεν, οὐκ ἐπὶ τοῖς αὐτοῖς μέντοι· τὸν μὲν γὰρ ᾠδῆς, τὸν δὲ τραπέζης ἕνεκεν. Ἐπεὶ δὲ ἔδει τὸν χῆνα παθεῖν ἐφ' οἷς ἐτρέφετο, νὺξ μὲν ἦν, καὶδιαγινώσκειν ὁ καιρὸς οὐκ ἀφῆκεν ἑκάτερον. Ὁ δὲ κύκνος, ἀντὶ τοῦ χηνὸς ἀπαχθείς, ᾄδει τι μέλος θανάτου προοίμιον, καὶ τῇ μὲν ᾠδῇ μηνύει τὴν φύσιν, τὴν δὲ τελευτὴν διαφεύγει τῷ μέλει.Ὁ μῦθος δηλοῖ ὅτι πολλάκις ἡ μουσικὴ τελευτῆς ἀναβολὴν ἀπεργάζεται. 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. |
