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Aesop's Fables (Chambry edition)
Chambry 57 = Perry 311
Ἄνθρωποι καὶ Ζεὺς.
Λέγουσι πρῶτον τὰ ζῷα πλασθῆναι καὶ χαρισθῆναι αὐτοῖς
παρὰ θεοῦ, τῷ μὲν ἀλκήν, τῷ δὲ τάχος, τῷ δὲ πτερά, τὸν δὲ ἄνθρωπον γυμνὸν
ἑστῶτα εἶπεῖν· Ἐμὲ μόνον κατέλιπες ἔρημον χάριτος· τὸν δὲ Δία εἰπεῖν· Ἀνεπαίσθητος
εἶ τῆς δωρεᾶς, καίτοι τοῦ μεγίστου τετυχηκώς· λόγον γὰρ ἔχεις λαβὼν, ὃς
παρὰ θεοῖς δύναται καὶ παρὰ ἀνθρώποις, τῶν δυνατῶν δυνατώτερος καὶ τῶν ταχίστων
ταχύτερος. Καὶ τότε ἐπιγνοὺς τὸ δῶρον ὁ ἄνθρωπος προσκυνήσας καὶ εὐχαριστήσας
ᾤχετο.
Ὅτι, ἐκ θεοῦ λόγῳ τιμηθέντων πάντων ἀνεπαισθήτως ἔχουσί τινες τῆς τοιαύτης
τιμῆς καὶ μᾶλλον ζηλοῦσι τὰ ἀναίσθητα καὶ ἄλογα ζῷα.
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. |
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