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Aesop's Fables (Chambry edition)Chambry 224 = Perry 156 Λύκος καὶ ἐρωδιός.Λύκος καταπιὼν ὀστοῦν περιῄει τὸν ἰασόμενον αὐτὸν ζητῶν. Περιτυχὼν δὲ ἐρωδιῷ, τοῦτον παρεκάλει ἐπὶ μισθῷ τὸ ὀστοῦν ἐκβαλεῖν. Κἀκεῖνος καθεὶς τὴν ἑαυτοῦ κεφαλὴν ει̣ς τὴν φάρυγγα αὐτοῦ τὸ ὀστοῦν ἐξέσπασε καὶ τὸν ὡμολογημένον μισθὸν ἀπῄτει. Ὁ δὲ ὑποτυχὼν εἶπεν· "Ὧ οὗτος, οὐκ ἀγαπᾷς ἐκ λύκου στόματος σώαν τὴν κεφαλὴν ἐξενεγκών, ἀλλὰ καὶ μισθὸν ἀπαιτεῖς;"Ὁ λόγος δηλοῖ ὅτι μεγίστη παρὰ τοῖς πονηροῖς εὐεργεσίας ἀμοιβὴ τὸ μὴ προσαδικεῖσθαι ὑπ' αὐτῶν. 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. |
