Aesop's Fables (Chambry edition)
Chambry 33 = Perry 268
Ἀλώπηξ καὶ δράκων.
[Συκέα παρ' ὁδὸν ἦν.] Ἀλώπηξ
[δὲ] θεασαμένη δράκοντα κοιμώμενον ἐζήλωσεν αὐτοῦ τὸ μῆκος· βουλομένη
δὲ αὐτῷ ἐξισωθῆναι παραναπεσοῦσα ἐπειρᾶτο ἑαυτὴν ἐκτείνειν, μέχρις οὗ
ὑπερβιαζομένη ἔλαβε ῥαγεῖσα. Τοῦτο πάσχουσιν οἱ τοῖς κρείττουσιν ἀνθαμιλλώμενοι·
θᾶττον γὰρ αὐτοὶ διαρρήγνυνται ἢ ἐκείνων ἐφικέσθαι δύνανται.
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. |