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Aesop's Fables (Chambry edition)Chambry 316 = Perry 208 (variant version from Chambry's first edition) Ποιμὴν καὶ πρόβατα.Ποιμὴν ἐλάσας εἴς τινα δρυμῶνα τὰ πρόβατα, ὑποστρώσας ὑπὸ δρῦν τὸ ἱμάτιον καὶ αναβὰς τὸν καρπὸν κατέσειε. Τὰ δὲ πρόβατα ἐσθίοντα τοὺς βαλάνους ἔλαθον καὶ τὰ ἱμάτια συγκαταφαγόντα. Ὁ δὲ ποιμὴν καταβάς, ὡς εἶδε τὸ γεγονός· Ὦ κάκιστα, ἔφη, ζῷα, ὑμεῖς τοῖς λοιποῖς ἔρια εἰς ἐσθῆτας παρέχετε, ἐμοῦ δὲ τρέφοντος ὑμᾶς καὶ τὸ ἱμάτιον ἀφείλεσθε.Ὁ μῦθος δηλοῖ ὅτι καὶ πολλοὶ τῶν ἀνθρώπων δι' ἄνοιαν τοὺς μηδὲν προσήκοντας εὐεργετοῦντες κατὰ τῶν οἰκείων φαῦλα ἐργάζονται. 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. |
