O besedilu
Lev in kmet
- Vir
- Ezopove basni
- Avtor
- Ezop / Karl Halm
- Jezik branja
- English
- Jezik izvirnika
- Ancient Greek
- Čas branja
- 1 min branja
- Obseg
- 1 stran
- Naslov izvirnika
- 249. Λέων καὶ Γεωργός. (S.138. C.221 et p.375. F.110. B.98.)
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
Lev in kmet
A lion fell in love with a farmer’s daughter and asked for her hand in marriage. The farmer could not bear to give his daughter to a wild beast, yet was too frightened to refuse, so he devised a plan. As the lion kept pressing him, he said that he approved of him as a husband for his daughter, but could not give her to him unless he had his teeth pulled out and his claws cut off, for the girl, he said, was afraid of them. The lion, out of love, readily submitted to both. But when he came to see the farmer, the man, no longer afraid of him, beat him with clubs and drove him away.
So those who readily trust their enemies and strip themselves of their own advantages become easy prey to those who once feared them.
Izvirnik
249. Λέων καὶ Γεωργός. (S.138. C.221 et p.375. F.110. B.98.)
Naslednje strani prikazujejo izvirno besedilo za primerjavo.
Λέων ἐρασθεὶς θυγατρός τινος γεωργοῦ ταύτην ἐμνηστεύσατο· ὁ δὲ μὴ ἐκδοῦναι θηρίῳ τὴν θυγατέρα ὑπομένων, μηδὲ ἀρνεῖσθαι διὰ τὸν φόβον δυνάμενος, τοιοῦτόν τι ἐπενόησεν. Ἐπειδὴ συνεχῶς ὁ λέων αὐτῷ ἐπέκειτο, ἔλεγεν, ὡς νυμφίον αὐτὸν τῆς θυγατρὸς δοκιμάζει· μὴ ἄλλως δὲ αὐτῷ δύνασθαι ἐκδοῦναι, ἐὰν μὴ τοὺς ὀδόντας ἐξέληται καὶ τοὺς ὄνυχας ἐκτέμῃ· τούτους γὰρ δεδοικέναι τὴν κόρην ἔφη. Τοῦ δὲ ῥᾳδίως διὰ τὸν ἔρωτα ἑκάτερον ὑπομείναντος, ὁ γεωργὸς καταφρονήσας αὐτοῦ, ὡς παρεγένετο πρὸς αὐτὸν, ῥοπάλοις παίων αὐτὸν ἐξήλασεν.
Οὕτως οἱ ῥᾳδίως τοῖς ἐχθροῖς πιστεύοντες, ὅταν τῶν ἰδίων πλεονεκτημάτων ἑαυτοὺς ἀπογυμνώσωσιν, εὐάλωτοι τούτοις γίνονται, πρότερον φοβεροὶ καθεστηκότες.
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