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Aesop's Fables (Chambry edition)Chambry 195 = Perry 334 Λέοντος βασιλεία. Λέων τις ἐβασίλευσεν οὐχὶ θυμώδης, οὐδὲ ὠμός, οὐδὲ βίαιος, ἀλλὰ πρᾷος καὶ δίκαιος, ὥσπερ ἄνθρωπος. Ἐπὶ δὲ τῆς αὐτοῦ βασιλείας συναθροισμὸς ἐγένετο πάντων τῶν ζώων δοῦναι δίκας καὶ λαβεῖν πρὸς ἄλληλα, ὁ λύκος μὲν προβάτῳ, πάρδαλις δὲ αἰγάγρῳ, ἐλάφῳ δὲ τίγρις, κύων δὲ λαγωῷ. Ὁ πτὼξ δὲ ἔφη· " Πολλὰ ηὐχόμην ἰδεῖν τὴν ἡμέραν ταύτην, ἵνα τοῖς βιαίοις φοβερὰ τὰ εὐτελῆ φανῶσιν."Ὅτι δικαιοσύνης ἐν πόλει οὕσης καὶ δικαίως πάντων δικαζόντων, καὶ οἱ εὐτελεῖς ἀταράχως βιοῦσιν. 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. |
