Waltey

Prevod

During a winter storm, a goatherd drove his goats into an uninhabited cave. There he found wild goats and he-goats, larger and more numerous than his own. Neglecting his own goats in favor of the wild ones, he fed the newcomers with leaves. But when the weather cleared, he found that his own goats had died of hunger, while the wild ones fled to the mountain. And so the goatherd returned home empty-handed, a laughingstock.

We should never neglect what is our own in the hope of gaining from what belongs to others.

Izvirnik

Ἐν σπηλαίῳ ἀοικήτῳ αἰγοβοσκὸς ἐν χειμῶνι αἶγα, ἤγαγεν. Εὗρεν δὲ ἐλεῖ ἀγρίας αἶγας καὶ τράγους, πλείονας ὧν εἶχεν αὐτὸς καὶ μείζους. Τὰς ἰδίας δὲ ἀφεὶς ἐπὶ ταῖς ἀγρίαις, ταύτας ἔτρεφε τοῖς φύλλοις. Ὅτε δὲ εὐδία γέγονε, τὰς μὲν ἰδίας εὗρε τεθνεώσας ἐκ τοῦ λιμοῦ, αἱ δὲ ἄγριαι πρὸς τὸ ὄρος ἔφυγον. Ὁ δὲ αἰπόλος γελαστὸς εἰς τὸν οἶκον ἦλθε κενός.

Ὅτι οὐδαμῶς ἡμᾶς πρέπει ἀμελεῖν τῶν οἰκείων, ἐπʼ ἐλπίδι κέρδους ἐξ ἀλλοτρίων γενησομένου.

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