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Aesop's Fables (Chambry edition)

Chambry 317 = Perry 365

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(variant version from Chambry's first edition)

Ποιμὴν λύκον εἰς μάνδραν εἰσάγων καὶ κύων.

Μάνδρας ἔσω πρόβατα ποιμὴν εἰσάγων
μετ' αὐτῶν καὶ λύκον ἤμελλε συγκλεῖσαι,
εἰ μὴ ὁ κύων ἰδὼν πρὸς αὐτὸν εἶπεν·
Πῶς τὰ πρόβατα τῆς ποίμνης θέλων σῶσαι
τόνδε τὸν λύκον συνεισάγεις τῇ ποίμνῃ;

Ὅτι μεγίστην βλάβην καὶ θανάτου παραιτίαν οἶδε ποιεῖν τῶν κακῶν ἡ συνοίκησις. 

(variant version from Chambry's first edition)

Ποιμὴν λύκον εἰς μάνδραν εἰσάγων καὶ κύων.

Ποιμὴν εἰς μάνδραν τὰ πρόβατα εἰσάγων
ἔμελλε μετ' αὐτῶν εἰσαγαγεῖν λύκον.
Κύων δὲ ἰδὼν πρὸς αὐτὸν οὕτως λέγει·
Πῶς ἄγων τοῦτον ἔνδοθεν εἰς τὴν μάνδραν
ποίμνια βούλει σοι τοῦ ζωογονεῖσθαι;

Ὅτι μεγίστην βλάβην καὶ θάνατον οἶδε ποιεῖν τῶν κακῶν ἡ συνουσία.


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.