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Aesop's Fables (Chambry edition)Chambry 18 = Perry 301 Αἰσχρὰ δούλη καὶ Ἀφροδίτη. Αἰσχρᾶς καὶ κακοτρόπου δούλης ἤρα δεσπότης. Ἡ δὲ χρυσίον λαμβάνου σα λαμπρῶς ἑαυτὴν ἐκόσμει καὶ τῇ ἰδίᾳ δεσποίνῃ μάχας συνῆπτε· τῇ δὲ Ἀφροδίτῃ ἔθυεν συνεχῶς καὶ ηὔχετο ὡς ὡραίαν αὐτὴν ποιούσῃ. Ἡ δὲ καθ' ὕπνου φανεῖσα τῇ δούλῃ ἔφη μὴ ἔχειν αὐτῇ χάριν ὡς καλὴν αὐτὴν ποιούσῃ, " ἀλλ' ἐκείνῳ θυμοῦμαι καὶ ὀργίζομαι ᾧ σὺ φαίνῃ καλή."Ὅτι οὐ δεῖ τυφοῦσθαι τοὺς δι' αἰσχρὰ πλουτοῦντας καὶ μάλιστα, εἰ ἀγενεῖς εἰσι καὶ ἄμορφοι [πρὸς αἰσχύνην μείζονα]. 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. |
