O besedilu
Žena
- Vir
- Ezopove basni
- Avtor
- Ezop / Karl Halm
- Jezik branja
- English
- Jezik izvirnika
- Ancient Greek
- Čas branja
- 1 min branja
- Obseg
- 1 stran
- Naslov izvirnika
- 108. Γυνή. (C.73. F. 234.)
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
Žena
A woman had a drunken husband, and, wishing to cure him of his affliction, she devised the following scheme. Watching for a time when he lay stupefied with drink and as insensible as a corpse, she lifted him onto her shoulders, carried him to a burial vault, laid him inside, and went away. When she thought he must be sobering up, she returned and knocked on the door of the vault. “Who is knocking at the door?” he asked. His wife replied, “I am the one who brings food to the dead.” “My good fellow,” he said, “bring me something to drink rather than something to eat. You distress me by mentioning food but not drink.” Beating her breast, she cried, “Alas, poor miserable woman that I am! All my cleverness has done no good. Husband, not only have you failed to learn your lesson, but you have grown worse than ever, now that your affliction has become a habit.” The fable shows that we must not persist in bad practices, for habit can take hold of a person even against his will.
Izvirnik
108. Γυνή. (C.73. F. 234.)
Naslednje strani prikazujejo izvirno besedilo za primerjavo.
Γυνή τις ἄνδρα μέθυσον εἶχε· τοῦ δὲ πάθους αὐτὸν ἀπαλλάξαι θέλουσα, τοιόνδε τι σοφίζεται. Κεκαρωμένον γὰρ αὐτὸν ὑπὸ τῆς μέθης παρατηρήσασα καὶ νεκροῦ δίκην ἀναισθητοῦντα, ἐπʼ ὤμων ἄρασα, ἐπὶ τὸ πολυάνδριον ἀπενεγκοῦσα κατέθετο καὶ ἀπῆλθεν. Ἡνίκα δʼ αὐτὸν ἤδη ἀνανήφειν ἐστοχάσατο, προσελθοῦσα τὴν θύραν ἔκοπτε τοῦ πολυανδρίου. Ἐκείνου δὲ φήσαντος ,,τίς ὁ τὴν θύραν κόπτων;“ ἡ γυνὴ ἀπεκρίνατο· ,,ὁ τοῖς νεκροῖς τὰ σιτία κομίζων ἐγὼ πάρειμι·“ Κἀκεῖνος· ,,μή μοι φαγεῖν, ἀλλὰ πιεῖν, ὦ βέλτιστε, μᾶλλον προσένεγκε· λυπεῖς γάρ με βρώσεως, ἀλλὰ μὴ πόσεως μνημονεύων.“ Ἡ δὲ τὸ στῆθος πατάξασα ,,οἴμοι τῇ δυστήνῳ “ φησίν· ,,οὐδὲν γὰρ οὐδὲ σοφισαμένη ὤνησα· σὺ γὰρ, ἄνερ, οὐ μόνον οὐκ ἐπαιδεύθης, ἀλλὰ καὶ χείρων σαυτοῦ γέγονας, εἰς ἕξιν σοι καταστάντος τοῦ πάθους.“
Ὁ μῦθος δηλοῖ, ὅτι οὐ δεῖ ταῖς κακαῖς πράξεσιν ἐγχρονίζειν. Ἔστι γὰρ ὅτε καὶ μὴ θέλοντι τῷ ἀνθρώπῳ τὸ ἔθος ἐπιτίθεται.
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