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Aesop's Fables (Chambry edition)Chambry 19 = Perry 8
Αἴσωπος ἐν ναυπηγίῳ. Αἴσωπος ὁ λογοποιὸς σχολὴν ἄγων εἰς ναυπήγιον εἰσῆλθε. Τῶν δὲ ναυπηγῶν σκωπτώντων τε αὐτὸν καὶ ἐκκαλουμένων εἰς ἀπόκρισιν, ὁ Αἴσωπος ἔλεγε τὸ παλαιὸν χάος καὶ ὕδωρ γενέσθαι, τὸν δὲ Δία βουλόμενον καὶ τὸ τῆς γῆς στοιχεῖον ἀναδεῖξαι παραινέσαι αὐτῇ ὅπως ἐπὶ τρὶς ἐκροφήσῃ τὴν θάλασσαν. Κἀκείνη ἀρξαμένη τὸ μὲν πρῶτον τὰ ὄρη ἐξέφηνεν, ἐκ δευτέρου δὲ ἐκροφήσασα καὶ τὰ πεδία ἀπεγύμνωσεν: " Ἐὰν δὲ δόξῃ αὐτῇ καὶ τὸ τρίτον ἐκπιεῖν τὸ ὕδωρ, ἄχρηστος ὑμῶν ἡ τέχνη γενήσεται. "Ὁ λόγος δεηλοῖ ὁτι οἱ τοὺς κρείττονας χλευάζοντες λανθάνουσι μείζονας ἑαυτοῖς τὰς ἀνίας ἐξ αὐτῶν ἐπισπώμενοι. 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. |
