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Aesop's Fables (Chambry edition)

Chambry 9 = Perry 277

Ἀηδὼν καὶ χελιδών.

Ἀηδόνι συνεβούλευε χελιδὼν τοῖς ἀνθρώποις εἶναι ὁμόροφον καὶ σύνοικον ὡς αὐτή. Ἡ δὲ εἶπεν· "Οὐ θέλω τὴν λύπην τῶν παλαιῶν μου συμφορῶν μεμνῆσθαι, καὶ διὰ τοῦτο τὰς ἐρήμους οἰκῶ."
[ Ὅτι ] τὸν λυπηθένθα ἔκ τινος τύχης καὶ τὸν τόπον φεύγειν ἐθέλειν ἔνθα ἡ λύπη συνέβη.

(variant version from Chambry's first edition)

Ἀηδὼν καὶ χελιδών.

Χελιδὼν δέ τις ὠμίλει ἀηδόνι
ἵν' ὁμόροφος ταύτῃ γε συνυπάρχῃ.
Ἡ δὲ πρὸς αὐτὴν δακρύουσα ἐβόα·
Οὐ δυνήσομαι ἐγὼ τοῦτο ποιῆσαι·
τῶν γὰρ προγόνων τὴν λύμην ἀναφέρω.
Διὰ γὰρ τοῦτο τὰς ἐρήμους οἰκήσω.

Ὅτι, ἐὰν λυπηθῇ τις ἔκ τινος τύχης, καὶ τὸν τόπον ἐκφεύγει οὗ ἐλυπήθη. 

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.