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Aesop's Fables (Chambry edition)

Chambry 340 = Perry 243

(variant version from Chambry's first edition)

Ὕαιναι.

Ὕαιναν λέγουσι διττὴν εἶναι φύσει·
χρόνῳ γὰρ αὐτή, φασίν, ἄρρην τυγχάνει
καὶ μετὰ χρόνον θήλεια. Φασὶ μίαν,
κακῶς αὐτῇ ἄρρενος διατεθέντος,
εἰπεῖν· Ὦ φίλε, μέμνησο πρόσθεν τόδε,
αὖθις τὸν αὐτόν ποτε ἀρρενωθῆναι.
Ὁ λόγος τοὺς ἄρξαντας ἐπὶ χρόνον τινὰ ἐδίδαξεν ὅτι κριθέντες ἄνθρωποί ποτε ὕστερον ἔκριναν τοὺς πάλαι διδασκάλους. 


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.