O besedilu
Čebela in Zevs
- Vir
- Ezopove basni
- Avtor
- Ezop / Karl Halm
- Jezik branja
- English
- Jezik izvirnika
- Ancient Greek
- Čas branja
- 1 min branja
- Obseg
- 1 stran
- Naslov izvirnika
- 287b. Ἄλλως. Μέλισσα καὶ Ζεύς. (F.114. C. p.381.)
O izvirniku
Ezopove basni
Kratke basni, kjer živali v nekaj potezah razkrijejo človeške slabosti. Bralni jezik je English, izvirnik pa prihaja iz vira Ezopove basni v jeziku Ancient Greek.
Besedilo
Čebela in Zevs
Long ago, a bee, the mother of honeycombs, ascended to the gods to offer incense, bringing honey as her gift. Delighted with the bee’s offering, Zeus promised to grant her whatever she asked. She cried out to him in supplication: “O glorious god, creator of me, the bee, grant your handmaid a sting, so that if anyone approaches my home to take my honey, I may kill him.” But Zeus was displeased with her request, for he dearly loved humankind, and said to the bee: “It shall not be as you have asked. Rather, if someone comes to take honey from you, and you attack and sting him, it is you who will die when your sting is torn out, for your life is bound up with your sting.”
The fable shows that in our prayers and supplications we should ask for no harm to befall our enemies, for whatever harm you wish upon them will at once recoil upon you.
Izvirnik
287b. Ἄλλως. Μέλισσα καὶ Ζεύς. (F.114. C. p.381.)
Naslednje strani prikazujejo izvirno besedilo za primerjavo.
Μέλισσα, πάλαι μήτηρ κηρίων οὖσα, ἀνελήλυθεν εἰς θεοὺς θυμιᾶσαι, προσαγαγοῦσα ἐκ μέλιτος τὸ δῶρον. Τερφθεὶς δὲ ὁ Ζεὺς τῇ προσφορᾷ τῆς μελίσσης, συνετάξατο αὐτῇ δοῦναι, ὃ ἂν αἰτήσῃ. δὲ πρὸς αὐτὸν ἐδέετο βοῶσα· „ὦ θεὲ λαμπρὲ καὶ κτιστὰ ἐμοῦ τῆς μελίσσης, ἐπίδος κέντρον τῇ σῇ θεραπαινίδι, ἵνα, ἐάν τις τῷ οἴκῳ μου πλησιάσῃ τοῦ ἆραι μέλι, αὐτὸν ἐγώ φονεύω.“ Ἀπειρηκὼς δὲ ὁ Ζδεὺς πρὸς τὰς αἰτήσεις, ἐπεὶ ἐφίλει τὸ τῶν ἀνθρώπων γένος πάνυ, ἔφησε τῇ με- λίσσῃ τοιάδε· „οὐχ ὡς ᾔτησας, οὕτως γενήσεταί σοι, ἀλλʼ ἐάν τις ἥκῃ λαβεῖν ἀπὸ σοῦ μέλι, σὺ δὲ προσκρούσῃς αὐτῷ καὶ πλήξῃς, αὐτὴ μᾶλλον τεθνήξῃ, ἐκβληθέντος σου τοῦ κέντρου· ζωὴ γὰρ ἐν σοὶ ὑπάρχει τὸ κέντρον.
Ὁ μῦθος δηλοῖ, ὅτι ἐν ταῖς εὐχαῖς καὶ ταῖς δεήσεσιν οὐ δεῖ κατὰ τῶν ἐχθρῶν τι ἐξαιτεῖσθαι κακόν· ὃ γὰρ ἂν κακὸν κατʼ αὐτῶν ἐξαιτήσῃς, ἀνθυποστρέψει ἐπὶ σὲ παραυτίκα.
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