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Aesop's Fables (Chambry edition)Chambry 215 = Perry 343 Λύκοι καὶ κύνες ἀλλήλοις πολεμοῦντες.Λύκοις καὶ κυσὶν ἦν ποτε ἔχθρα. Κύων δὲ Ἕλλην ᾑρέθη στρατηγὸς κυσίν. Οὗτος πρὸς τὴν μάχην ἐβράδυνεν· οἱ δὲ λύκοι ἠπείλουν σφοδρῶς. Ὁ δὲ εἶπεν· "Οἴδατε τίνος χάριν βραδύνω; πρέπον ἐστὶν ἀεὶ προβουλεύεσθαι. Ὑμῶν γὰρ τὸ γένος καὶ ἡ χροιὰ πάντων ἕν ἐστιν· οἱ ἡμέτεροι δὲ ἐκ πολλῶν τρόπων εἰσὶ καὶ τοῖς τόποις καυχῶνται. Ἀλλὰ καὶ ἡ χροιὰ πάντων οὐκ ἔστι μία καὶ ἴση, ἀλλ' οἱ μὲν μέλανες, οἱ δὲ πυρροί, οἱ δὲ λευκοὶ καὶ τεφρώδεις. Καὶ πῶς ἂν δυνηθείην εἰς πόλεμον ἄρχειν τῶν ἀσυμφώνων καὶ μὴ ὅμοια πάντα ἐχόντων;"Ὅτι ἐν μιᾷ βουλῇ καὶ γνώμῃ πάντων τῶν στρατευμάτων ὄντων κατὰ τῶν ἐναντίων νίκην ποιοῦνται. 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. |
