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Aesop's Fables (Chambry edition)Chambry 276 = Perry 264
Ὄνος καὶ κύων συνοδοιποροῦντες.Ὄνος καὶ κύων ἐν ταὐτῷ ὡδοιπόρουν. Εὑρόντες δὲ ἐπὶ γῆς ἐσφραγισμένον γραμμάτιον, ὁ ὄνος λαβὼν καὶ ἀναρρήξας τὴν σφραγῖδα καὶ ἀναπτύξας, διεξῄει εἰς ἐπήκοον τοῦ κυνός. Περὶ βοσκημάτων δὲ ἐτύγχανε τὰ γράμματα χόρτου τε, φημί, καὶ κριθῆς καὶ ἀχύρου. Ἀηδῶς οὖν ὁ κύων, τοῦ ὄνου ταῦτα διεξιόντος, διέκειτο· ἔνθεν δὴ καὶ ἔφησε τῷ ὄνῳ· Ὑπόβαθι, φιλτατε, μικρόν, μή τι καὶ περὶ κρεῶν καὶ ὀστέων εὕρῃς διαλαμβάνων. Ὁ δὲ ὄνος ἅπαν τὸ γραμμάτιον διεξελθὼν καὶ μηδὲν εὑρηκὼς ὧν ὁ κύων ἐζήτει, ἀντέφησεν αὖθις ὁ κύων· Βάλε κατὰ γῆς, ὡς ἀδόκιμον πάντη, φίλε, τυγχάνον.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. |
