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Lev, medved in lisica

Ezopove basni · Ezop / Karl Halm
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O besedilu

Lev, medved in lisica

Vir
Ezopove basni
Avtor
Ezop / Karl Halm
Jezik branja
English
Jezik izvirnika
Ancient Greek
Čas branja
1 min branja
Obseg
1 stran
Naslov izvirnika
247b . Ἄλλως. (C. 39.)

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, medved in lisica

A lion and a bear found some food in a marsh and fought over it. They battered each other so fiercely that their strength gave out, and they lay half dead. A fox passing by saw them lying there, and, noticing the food between them, snatched it up and ran off. Watching her go, but unable to rise, they said, “Wretched creatures that we are! We have been fighting for the fox’s benefit.” The fable shows that many who toil and struggle only secure a profit for others.

Izvirnik

247b . Ἄλλως. (C. 39.)

Naslednje strani prikazujejo izvirno besedilo za primerjavo.

Λέων καὶ ἄρκτος βρῶμά τι εὑρόντες ἐν ἕλει, περὶ τούτου ἐμάχοντο. Δεινῶς οὖν ὑπʼ ἀλλήλων κατακοπέντες ἐσκοτίσθησαν ἐκ τῆς πολλῆς μάχης, καὶ ἔκειντο ἡμιθανεῖς. Ἀλώπηξ δὲ περιϊοῦσα καὶ θεασαμένη πεπτωκότας, ἰδοῦσα καὶ τὸ βρῶμα κείμενον ἐν μέσῳ, ἄρασα τοῦτο δρομαῖος ᾤχετο. Οἱ δὲ ἰδόντες αὐτὴν καὶ μὴ δυνάμενοι ἀναστῆναι, εἶπον· „ἄθλιοι ὄντως ἡμεῖς, ὅτι διʼ ἀλώπεκα ἐμαχόμεθα.“

Ὁ μῦθος δηλοῖ, ὅτι πολλοὶ κοπιῶντες καὶ μοχθοῦντες ἑτέροις κέρδος προσκτῶνται.