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Aesop's Fables (Chambry edition)
Chambry 189 = Perry 137
Κώνωψ καὶ ταῦρος.
Κώνωψ ἐπιστὰς κέρατι ταύρου
καὶ πολὺν χρόνον ἐπικαθίσας, ἐπειδὴ
ἀπαλλάττε σθαι ἔμελλεν, ἐπυνθάνετο τοῦ
ταύρου εἰ ἤδη βούλεται αὐτὸν ἀπελθεῖν.
Ὁ δὲ ὑποτυχὼν εἶπεν· "Ἀλλ' οὔτε, ὅτε
ἦλθες, ἔγνων, οὔτε, ἐὰν ἀπέλθῃς, γνώσομαι."
Τούτῳ τῷ λόγῳ χρήσαιτο ἄν τις πρὸς ἄνδρα
ἀδύνατον, ὃς οὔτε παρὼν οὔτε ἀπὼν ἐπιβλαβὴς
ἢ ὠφέλιμός 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. |
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