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Aesop's Fables (Chambry edition)Chambry 290 = Perry 196
(variant version from Chambry's first edition) Ὄφις καὶ καρκῖνος.Ὄφις καρκίνῳ συνδιῃτᾶτο, ἑταιρείαν πρὸς αὐτὸν ποιησάμενος. Ὁ μὲν οὖν καρκῖνος ἁπλοῦς ὢν τὸν τρόπον, μεταβαλέσθαι κἀκείνῳ παρῄνει τῆς πανουργίας. Ὁ δὲ οὐδοτιοῦν ἑαυτὸν παρεῖχε πειθόμενον. Ἐπιτηρήσας δ' ὁ καρκῖνος αὐτὸν ὑπνοῦντα καὶ τοῦ φάρυγγος τῇ χηλῇ λαβόμενος καὶ ὅσον οἷόν τε πιέσας, φονεύει. Τοῦ δ' ὄφεως μετὰ θάνατον ἐκταθέντος, ἐκεῖνος εἶπεν· Οὕτως ἔδει καὶ πρόσθεν εὐθὺν καὶ ἁπλοῦν εἶναι· οὐδὲ γὰρ ἂν ταύτην τὴν δίκην ἔτισας.Ὁ μῦθος δηλοῖ ὅτι οἱ τοῖς φίλοις σὺν δόλῳ προσιόντες αὐτοὶ μᾶλλον βλάπτονται. 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. |
