O besedilu
Komar in lev
- Vir
- Ezopove basni
- Avtor
- Ezop / Karl Halm
- Jezik branja
- English
- Jezik izvirnika
- Ancient Greek
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- 1 min branja
- Obseg
- 1 stran
- Naslov izvirnika
- 234. Κώνωψ καὶ Λέων. (C. 146. F. 259.)
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
Komar in lev
A gnat approached a lion and said, “I am not afraid of you, and you are no stronger than I am. If you think otherwise, what does your strength amount to? Scratching with your claws and biting with your teeth? A woman does as much when she fights with her husband. I am far stronger than you. If you like, let us do battle.” Then the gnat sounded his trumpet and attacked, biting the hairless parts of the lion’s face around his nostrils. The lion tore at himself with his own claws until he gave up in exasperation. Having defeated the lion, the gnat sounded his trumpet, sang a song of victory, and flew away. But he became entangled in a spider’s web, and as he was being eaten, he lamented that, after fighting the mightiest, he was perishing at the hands of a lowly creature—a spider.
The fable is for those who bring down the mighty, only to be brought down by the weak.
Izvirnik
234. Κώνωψ καὶ Λέων. (C. 146. F. 259.)
Naslednje strani prikazujejo izvirno besedilo za primerjavo.
Κώνωψ πρὸς λέοντα ἐλθὼν εἶπεν· „οὔτε φοβοῦμαί σε, οὔτε δυνατώτερός μου εἶ· εἰ δὲ μὴ, τίς σοί ἐστιν ἡ δύναμις; ὅτι ξύεις τοῖς ὄνυξι, καὶ δάκνεις τοῖς ὀδοῦσι; τοῦτο καὶ γυνὴ τῷ ἀνδρὶ μαχομένη ποιεῖ. Ἐγὼ , δὲ λίαν ὑπάρχω σου ἰσχυρότερος· εἰ δὲ θέλεις, ἔλθωμεν καὶ εἰς πόλεμον. Καὶ σαλπίσας ὁ κώνωψ ἐνεπήγετο, δάκνων τὰ περὶ τὰς ῥῖνας αὐτοῦ ἄτριχα πρόσωπα. Ὁ δὲ λέων τοῖς ἰδίοις ὄνυξι κατέλυεν ἑαυτὸν, ἕως οὗ ἠγανάκτησεν. Ὁ κώνωψ δὲ, νικήσας τὸν λέοντα καὶ σαλπίσας καὶ ἐπινίκιον ᾄσας, ἀπέπτατο. Ἀράχνης δὲ δεσμῷ ἐμπλακεὶς, ἐσθιόμενος ἀπωδύρετο, ὅτι μεγίστοις πολεμῶν ὑπὸ εὐτελοῦς ζώου, τῆς ἀράχνης, ἀπώλετο.
Ὁ μῦθος πρὸς τοὺς καταβάλλοντας μεγάλους καὶ ὑπὸ μικρῶν καταβαλλομένους.
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