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Kozji pastir in divje koze

Ezopove basni · Ezop / Karl Halm
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O besedilu

Kozji pastir in divje koze

Vir
Ezopove basni
Avtor
Ezop / Karl Halm
Jezik branja
English
Jezik izvirnika
Ancient Greek
Čas branja
1 min branja
Obseg
1 stran
Naslov izvirnika
12b. Ἄλλως. (F. 261. C. 150.)

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

Kozji pastir in divje koze

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

12b. Ἄλλως. (F. 261. C. 150.)

Naslednje strani prikazujejo izvirno besedilo za primerjavo.

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.