Waltey

Waltey

Kmet in lisica

Ezopove basni · Ezop / Karl Halm
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O besedilu

Kmet in lisica

Vir
Ezopove basni
Avtor
Ezop / Karl Halm
Jezik branja
English
Jezik izvirnika
Ancient Greek
Čas branja
1 min branja
Obseg
1 stran
Naslov izvirnika
61b. Ἄλλίως. Γεωργὸς καὶ Ἀλώπηξ. (C. 304. P. 221.)

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

Kmet in lisica

A wicked farmer grew envious of his neighbor’s flourishing crop and sought to destroy the fruits of his labor. He caught a fox, tied a burning brand to it, and let it loose toward his neighbor’s field. But the fox did not go where it had been sent; instead, as fate would have it, it set fire to the field of the man who had released it.

Malicious neighbors are the first to suffer the harm they intend for others.

Izvirnik

61b. Ἄλλίως. Γεωργὸς καὶ Ἀλώπηξ. (C. 304. P. 221.)

Naslednje strani prikazujejo izvirno besedilo za primerjavo.

Γεωργῷ πονηρῷ φθόνον ἐνεποίει τὸ τοῦ γείτονος αὐξανόμενον λήϊον, καὶ διαφθείρειν τοὺς ἐκείνου πόνους ἐζήτει. Καὶ θηράσας ἀλώπεκα, προσάψας δαλὸν, πρὸς τὸ τοῦ γείτονος ἀφίησι λήϊον. Ἡ δὲ καθʼ ἧς ἀφεῖτο μὴ παριοῦσα, βουλομένου τοῦ δαίμονος τὸ τοῦ πέμψανττος ἐνέπρησεν λήϊον.

Πονηροὶ γείτονες πρῶτοι τῆς ἑτέρων μετέχουσι βλάβης.