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Aesop's Fables (Chambry edition)

Chambry 280 = Perry 360

Ὄνος παλιούρους ἐσθίων καὶ ἀλώπηξ.

Ὄνος παλιούρων ἤσθιεν ὀξείην χαίτην.
Τὸν δ' εἶδεν ἀλώπηξ, κερτομοῦσα δ' εἰρήκει·
Πῶς οὕτως ἁπαλῇ καὶ ἀνειμένῃ γλώσσῃ
σκληρὸν μαλάσσεις προσφάγημα καὶ τρώγεις;
Ὁ μῦθος πρὸς τοὺς σκληροὺς καὶ ἐπικινδύνους προφέροντας διὰ γλώσσης λόγους. 

(variant version from Chambry's first edition)

Ὄνος παλιούρους ἐσθίων καὶ ἀλώπηξ.

Ὄνος ἀκανθώδεις παλιούρους ἔσθιε. Τοῦτον δὲ ἰδοῦσα ἀλώπηξ εἶπεν· Πῶς οὕτω τῇ ἁπαλῇ γλώσσῃ τὸ σκληρὸν καὶ ἀκανθῶδες προσφάγιον ἐσθίεις;
Ὅτι οὐ δεῖ φλυάρων ἀνδρῶν κατηγορίας ἀκούειν· εἰς κίνδυνον γὰρ ἄγουσι τὸν ἀκούοντα.
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.