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Lev in miš

Ezopove basni · Ezop / Karl Halm
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O besedilu

Lev in miš

Vir
Ezopove basni
Avtor
Ezop / Karl Halm
Jezik branja
English
Jezik izvirnika
Ancient Greek
Čas branja
1 min branja
Obseg
1 stran
Naslov izvirnika
257b . Ἄλλως. (C. 218.)

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 miš

Once, in the heat of the day, a lion was resting in a cave. A mouse ran through his mane, and the lion, startled, sprang up and glared fiercely about him. When a fox laughed at him, he said, “I was not afraid of the mouse; I am putting a stop to a bad practice before it becomes a habit.” The lesson is that a bad habit must not be given free rein, for once it takes hold, it brings the greatest misery.

Izvirnik

257b . Ἄλλως. (C. 218.)

Naslednje strani prikazujejo izvirno besedilo za primerjavo.

Λέων ποτὲ καύματος ὥρᾳ ἐν τινι σπηλαίῳ ἀνεπαύετο. Μυὸς δὲ διὰ τῆς χαίτης αὐτοῦ διαδραμόντος, ταραχθεὶς καὶ ἐξαναστὰς φοβερὸν ἀπέβλεπεν. Ἀλώπεκος δὲ καταγελώσης εἶπεν· „οὐ τὸν μῦν ἐφοβήθην, ἀλλὰ τὴν κακὴν ὁδὸν καὶ συνήθειαν ἀνατρέπω.“

Ὅτι τῇ κακῇ συνηθείᾳ οὐ δεῖ παρέχειν ἄδειαν· νομὴν γὰρ λαβοῦσα λύπην ἐσχάτην ποιεῖ.