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Aesop's Fables (Chambry edition)Chambry 203 = Perry 338
Λέων καὶ κάπρος.Θέρους ἐν ὥρᾳ, ὅτε τὸ καῦμα δίψαν ἐμποιεῖ, εἰς μικρὰν πηγὴν λέων καὶ κάπρος ἦλθον πιεῖν. Ἤριζον δὲ τίς πρῶτος αὐτῶν πίῃ· ἐκ τούτου δὲ πρὸς φόνον ἀλλήλων διηγέρθησαν. Ἄφνω δὲ ἐπιστραφέντες πρὸς τὸ ἀναπνεῦσαι, εἶδον γῦπας ἐκδεχομένους ὃς ἂν αὐτῶν πέσῃ, τοῦτον καταφαγεῖν. Διὰ τοῦτο λύσαντες τὴν ἔχθραν εἶπον· "Κρεῖσσόν ἐστιν ἡμᾶς φίλους γενέσθαι ἢ βρῶμα γυψί καὶ κόραξιν."Ὅτι τὰς πονηρὰς ἔριδας καὶ τὰς φιλονεικίας καλόν ἐστι διαλύειν, ἐπειδὴ πᾶσιν ἐπικίνδυνον τέλος ἀγουσιν. 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. |
