Aesop's Fables (Chambry edition)
Chambry 322 = Perry 240
Προμηθεὺς καὶ ἄνθρωποι.
Προσμηθεὺς κατὰ πρόσταξιν Διὸς ἀνθρώπους ἔπλασε καὶ θηρία.
Ὁ δὲ Ζεὺς θεασάμενος πολλῷ πλείονα τὰ ἄλογα ζῷα ἐκέλευσεν αὐτὸν τῶν θηρίων
τινὰ διαφθείροντα ἀνθρώπους μετατυπῶσαι. Τοῦ δὲ τὸ προσταχθὲν ποιήσαντος,
συνέβη ἐκ τούτου τοὺς μὴ ἐξ ἀρχῆς ἀνθρώπους πλασθέντας τὴν μὲν μορφὴν
ἀνθρώπων ἔχειν, τὰς δὲ ψυχὰς θηριώδεις.
Πρὸς ἄνδρα σκαιὸν καὶ θηριώδη ὁ λόγος εὔκαιρος.
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. |