O besedilu
Lev, Prometej in slon
- Vir
- Ezopove basni
- Avtor
- Ezop / Karl Halm
- Jezik branja
- English
- Jezik izvirnika
- Ancient Greek
- Čas branja
- 2 min branja
- Obseg
- 1 stran
- Naslov izvirnika
- 261. Λέων, Προμηθεὺς καὶ Ἐλέφας. (F. 357. C. 4Ο7.)
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, Prometej in slon
A lion often reproached Prometheus for having made him large and handsome, armed his jaws with teeth, strengthened his paws with claws, and made him mightier than the other beasts. “Yet for all that,” he would say, “I am afraid of a rooster.” Prometheus replied, “Why blame me without cause? You have every gift I had the power to bestow; it is only in this one thing that your spirit fails you.” So the lion bewailed his lot and reproached himself for his cowardice, until at last he wished to die. In this frame of mind he came upon an elephant, greeted him, and stood talking with him. Noticing that the elephant kept moving his ears, he asked, “What troubles you? Why does your ear never stay still, even for a moment?” Just then a gnat happened to fly about the elephant, and he replied, “Do you see that tiny buzzing creature? If it gets into my ear, I am dead.” “Then why should I wish to die?” said the lion. “I am better off than the elephant by as much as a rooster is mightier than a gnat!” You see how much power a gnat has: it can frighten even an elephant.
Izvirnik
261. Λέων, Προμηθεὺς καὶ Ἐλέφας. (F. 357. C. 4Ο7.)
Naslednje strani prikazujejo izvirno besedilo za primerjavo.
Λέων κατεμέμφετο Προμηθέα πολλάκις, ὅτι μέγαν αὐτὸν ἔπλασε καὶ καλὸν, καὶ τὴν μὲν γένυν ὥπλισε τοῖς ὀδοῦσι, τοὺς δὲ πόδας ἐκράτυνε τοῖς ὄνυξιν, ἐποίησέ τε τῶν ἄλλων θηρίων δυνατώτερον· „ὁ δὲ τοιοῦτος“ ἔφασκε „τὸν ἀλεκτρυόνα φοβοῦμαι.“ Καὶ ὁ Προμηθεὺς ἔφη· „τί με μάτην αἰτιᾷ; τὰ γὰρ ἐμὰ πάντα ἔχεις, ὅσα πλάττειν ἐδυνάμην· ἡ δέ σου ψυχὴ πρὸς τοῦτο μόνον μαλακίζεται. Ἔκλαιεν οὖν ἑαυτὸν ὁ λέων, καὶ τῆς δειλίας κατεμέμφετο, καὶ τέλος ἀποθανεῖν ἤθελεν. Οὕτω δὲ γνώμης ἔχων ἐλέφαντι περιτυγχάνει, καὶ προσαγορεύσας εἱστήκει διαλεγόμενος. Καὶ ὁρῶν διαπαντὸς τὰ ὦτα κινοῦντα, „τί πάσχεις “ ἔφη „καὶ τί δήποτε οὐδὲ μικρὸν ἀτρεμεῖ σου τὸ οὖς;“ Καὶ ὁ ἐλέφας, κατὰ τύχην περιπτάντος αὐτῷ κώνωπος, „ὁρᾷς“ ἔφη „τοῦτο τὸ βραχὺ, τὸ βομβοῦν; ἤν εἰσδύνῃ μου τῇ τῆς ἀκοῆς ὁδῷ, τέθνηκα.“ Καὶ ὁ λέων· „τί οὖν ἔτι ἀποθνήσκειν“ ἔφη „με δεῖ, τοσοῦτον ὄντα καὶ ἐλέφαντος εὐτυχέστερον, ὅσον κρείττων κώνωπος ὁ ἀλεκτρυών;“
Ὁρᾷς, ὅσον ἰσχύος ὁ κώνωψ ἔχει, ὡς καὶ ἐλέφαντα φοβεῖν.
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