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Aesop's Fables (Chambry edition)Chambry 304 = Perry 203 [...] (variant version from Chambry's first edition) Πίθηκος καὶ ἁλιεῖς.Πίθηξ ἔν τινι ὑψηλῷ δένδρῳ καθήμενος, ὡς ἐθεάσατο ἁλιεῖς ἐπί τινος ποταμοῦ σαγήνην βάλλοντας, παρετήρει τὰ ὑπ' αὐτῶν γινόμενα. Καὶ δὴ τούτων τὴν σαγήνην ἐασάντων, καὶ μικρὸν ὑποχωρησάντων τοῦ φαγεῖν, καταβὰς ἀπὸ τοῦ δένδρου, ἐπειρᾶτο μιμεῖσθαι αὐτούς· φασὶ γὰρ μιμητικὸν εἶναι τὸ ζῷον τοῦτο. Ἐφαψάμενος δὲ τῶν δικτύων καὶ συλληφθεὶς ἐκινδύνευε πνιγῆναι. Ὁ δὲ πρὸς ἑαυτὸν ἔφη· Ἀλλ' ἔγωγε δίκαια πέπονθα· τί γὰρ ἁλιεύειν μὴ μαθὼν τούτῳ ἐπεχείρουν;Ὁ λόγος δηλοῖ ὅτι ἡ τῶν μηδὲν προσηκόντων ἐπιχείρησις οὐ μόνον ἀσύμφορος, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἐπιβλαβής εστι. 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. |
