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Aesop's Fables (Chambry edition)Chambry 92 = Perry 300 Δάμαλις καὶ βοῦς. Δάμαλις βοῦν ὁρῶσα ἐργαζόμενον ἐταλάνιζεν αὐτὸν ἐπὶ τῷ κόπῳ. Ἐπειδὴ δὲ ἑορτὴ κατέλαβε, τὸν βοῦν ἀπολύσαντες, τὴν δάμαλιν ἐκράτησαν τοῦ σφάξαι. Ἰδὼν δὲ ὁ βοῦς ἐμειδίασε καὶ πρὸς αὐτὴν εἶπεν· Ὦ δάμαλις, διὰ τοῦτο ἤργεις διότι ἔμελλες ἀρτίως τυθῆναι. Ὁ μῦθος δηλοῖ ὅτι τὸν ἀργοῦντα κίνδυνος μένει. (variant version from Chambry's first edition) Δάμαλις καὶ βοῦς. Δάμαλις ἀγύμναστος βοῦν
ἀροτριῶντα ἐταλάνιζε τοῦ κόπου, λέγουσα·
Ὢ πόσα κάμνεις καὶ ταλαιπωρεῖς. Ὁ βοῦς
δὲ ἐσίγα καὶ τὴν αὔλακα ἔτεμνεν. Ἐπεὶ
δὲ οἱ ἀγρόται τοῖς θεοῖς ἤθελον θύειν,
ὁ μὲν γέρων βοῦς ἀποζευχθεὶς εἰς νομὴν
ἀπελύθη· ὁ δὲ μόσχος σχοινίῳ εἵλκετο
ἐπὶ τὸ τυθῆναι. Ὁ δὲ βοῦς εἶπεν αὐτῷ·
Εἰς τοῦτο μὴ κάμνων ἐτηρήθης καί σου
τὸν τράχηλον μάχαιρα, οὐ ζυγὸς τρίψει.
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. |
