O besedilu
Kavka in ptice
- Vir
- Ezopove basni
- Avtor
- Ezop / Karl Halm
- Jezik branja
- English
- Jezik izvirnika
- Ancient Greek
- Čas branja
- 1 min branja
- Obseg
- 1 stran
- Naslov izvirnika
- 200b. Ἄλλως. Κολοιὸς καὶ Ὄρνεις. (C. 188 et p.367. F. 78. S.101.)
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
Kavka in ptice
Zeus, wishing to appoint a king over the birds, set a day on which they were all to appear before him, so that he might choose the most beautiful of them to rule over the rest. The birds went to a river to wash themselves. But a jackdaw, aware of his own ugliness, went and gathered the feathers the other birds had shed, arranging them about himself and fastening them to his body. In this way he became the handsomest of them all. When the appointed day arrived, all the birds came before Zeus. Zeus was about to name the jackdaw their king on account of his splendid appearance, when the indignant birds each plucked away the feather that belonged to them, and the jackdaw was once again merely a jackdaw.
The fable shows that debtors and those who enrich themselves with borrowed wealth seem to be people of consequence so long as they retain what belongs to others; but when it is demanded back, they are revealed for what they were before.
Izvirnik
200b. Ἄλλως. Κολοιὸς καὶ Ὄρνεις. (C. 188 et p.367. F. 78. S.101.)
Naslednje strani prikazujejo izvirno besedilo za primerjavo.
Ζεὺς, βουλόμενος βασιλέα καταστῆσαι ὀρνέων, προθεσμίαν αὐτοῖς ἔταξεν, ἐν ᾗ παραγενήσονται πάντες πρὸς αὐτὸν, ὅπως τὸν ὡραιότερον πάντων καταστήσῃ ἐπʼ αὐτούς βασιλέα. Τὰ δὲ παραγενόμενα ἐπί τινα ποταμὸν ἀπενίζοντο. Κολοιὸς δὲ. συνιῶν ἑαυτῷ περικειμένην δυσμορφίαν, ἀπελθὼνκαὶτὰ ἀποπίπτοντα τῶν ὀρνέων πτερὰ συλλεξάμενος, ἑαυτῷ περιέθηκέ τε καὶ προσεκόλλησε. Συνέβη οὖν ἐκ τούτου εὐειδέστερον πάντων γενέσθαι. Ἐπέστη οὖν ἡ ἡμέρα τῆς προθεσμίας, καὶ ἦλθον πάντα τὰ ὄρνεα πρὸς τὸν Δία. Τοῦ δὲ Διὸς μέλλοντος χειροτονῆσαι αὐτοῖς τὸν κολοιὸν βασιλέα διὰ τὴν εὐπρέπειαν, ἀγανακτήσαντα τὰ ὄρνεα ἕκαστον τὸ οἰκεῖον πτερὸν ἀφείλετο ἐξ αὐτοῦ· καὶ ὁ κολοιὸς ἦν πάλιν κολοιός.
Ὁ μῦθος δηλοῖ, ὅτι καὶ οἱ χρεωφειλέται καὶ ἐπικτήτους προσκτώμενοι πλούτους, μέχρις ἄν κατέχωσι τὰ ἀλλότρια, δοκοῦσιν εἶναί τινες· ἐπειδὰν δὲ αὐτὰ ἀπαιτηθῶσιν, ὁποῖοι ἦσαν πρότερον γινώσκονται.
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