O besedilu
Kača in rak
- Vir
- Ezopove basni
- Avtor
- Ezop / Karl Halm
- Jezik branja
- English
- Jezik izvirnika
- Ancient Greek
- Čas branja
- 1 min branja
- Obseg
- 1 stran
- Naslov izvirnika
- 346. Ὄφις καὶ Καρκίνος. (C. 70. F.231. S. 192.)
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
Kača in rak
A snake made friends with a crab and shared a home with him. The crab, who was straightforward by nature, urged the snake to give up his cunning ways, but the snake would not listen at all. So the crab waited until the snake was asleep, seized him by the throat with his claw, and squeezed as hard as he could, killing him. When the snake lay stretched out straight after death, the crab said, “You should have been straight and honest like this before; then you would never have paid this penalty.” The fable shows that those who deal deceitfully with their friends do greater harm to themselves.
Izvirnik
346. Ὄφις καὶ Καρκίνος. (C. 70. F.231. S. 192.)
Naslednje strani prikazujejo izvirno besedilo za primerjavo.
Ὄφις καρκίνῳ συνδιῃτᾶτο, ἑταιρείαν πρὸς αὐτὸν ποιησάμενος. Ὁ μὲν οὖν καρκίνος ἁπλοῦς ὢν τὸν τρόπον, μεταβαλέσθαι κἀκείνῳ παρῄνει τῆς πανουργίας· ὁ δὲ οὐδοτιοῦν ἑαυτὸν παρεῖχε πειθόμενον. Ἐπιτηρήσας δʼ ὁ καρκίνος αὐτὸν ὑπνοῦντα, καὶ τοῦ φάρυγγος τῇ χηλῇ λαβόμενος καὶ ὅσον οἷόν τε πιέσας, φονεύει. Τοῦ δʼ ὄφεως μετὰ θάνατον ἐκταθέντος, ἐκεῖνος εἶπεν· ,,οὕτως ἔδει καὶ πρόσθεν εὐθὺν καὶ ἁπλοῦν εἶναι· οὐδὲ γὰρ ἂν ταύτην τὴν δίκην ἔτισας.“
Ὁ μῦθος δηλοῖ, ὅτι οἱ τοῖς φίλοις σὺν δόλῳ προσιόντες αὐτοὶ μᾶλλον βλάπτονται.
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