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Aesop's Fables (Chambry edition)Chambry 48 = Perry 306 Ἀνὴρ δηχθεὶς ὑπὸ μύρμηκος καὶ Ἑρμῆς. Ναῦν ποτε μετὰ τῶν ἀνδρῶν βυθισθεῖσαν ἰδών τις ἀδίκως ἔλεγε τοὺς θεοὺς κρίνειν· δι' ἕνα γὰρ ἀσεβῆ συναπώλοντο καὶ ἀναίτιοι. Ταῦτα αὐτοῦ λέγοντος, μυρμήκων πολλῶν ὄντων ἐν τῷ τόπῳ ἐν ᾧ ἔτυχεν ἱστάμενος, συνέβη ὑφ' ἑνὸς δηχθῆναι τοῦτον. Ὁ δὲ ὑφ' ἑνὸς δηχθεὶς συνεπάτησε τοὺς πάντας. Ἑρμῆς δὲ ἐπιστὰς αὐτῷ καὶ τῇ ῥάβδῳ παίων εἶπεν· Εἶτα οὐκ ἀνέχῃσὺ τοὺς θεοὺς δικαστὰς εἶναι οἷος εἶ σὺ τῶν μυρμήκων;Ὅτι μηδεὶς θεοῦ βλασφημείτω, συμφορᾶς ἐπελθούσης, μᾶλλον δὲ σκοπείτω τὰς οἰκείας ἁμαρτίας. 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. |
