O besedilu
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- Vir
- Ezopove basni
- Avtor
- Ezop / Karl Halm
- Jezik branja
- English
- Jezik izvirnika
- Ancient Greek
- Čas branja
- 1 min branja
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- 1 stran
- Naslov izvirnika
- 291b. Ἄλλως. (F. 175. C. p. 383. B. 31.)
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
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Once the weasels were at war with the mice, routing and killing them. The mice said among themselves, “It is no wonder the weasels defeat us. We have no king, as they do, nor generals to command us in battle. That is why we all suffer and are driven from the field.” At once they held a council and appointed the largest mice as leaders and generals over the rest. Then, having armed themselves and drawn up their ranks once more, they raised the din of battle. When their trumpets sounded, they began to fight the weasels, who utterly defeated the mice and put the wretched creatures to flight. Those who fled without armor slipped at once into cracks in the walls. But their armored leaders, the rulers and generals of the rest, could not squeeze into the holes, and the weasels killed them all.
The fable shows that, for a life free from danger, humble circumstances are better than splendor and worldly glory.
Izvirnik
291b. Ἄλλως. (F. 175. C. p. 383. B. 31.)
Naslednje strani prikazujejo izvirno besedilo za primerjavo.
Ποτὲ γαλέαι ἐμάχοντο τοῖς μυσὶν, αὐτούς κατατροποῦσαι καὶ ἀναιροῦσαι. Εἶπον δὲ οἱ μύες καθʼ ἑαυτοὺς τοιαῦτα· „οὐ παραλόγως γαλέαι ἡμᾶς ἡττῶσιν· οὐ γὰρ κτώμεθα ἄνακτα, ὥσπερ αὗται, οὐδὲ στρατηγοὺς ἐπὶ τῇ παρατάξει, καὶ διὰ τοῦτο ταλαιπωροῦμεν πάντες, καὶ φυγάδες γινόμεθα τοῦ πολέμου. Καὶ παραυτίκα συμβούλιον λαβόντες, κατεστήσαντο τοὺς παμμεγέθεις μύας ἀρχηγέτας τε καὶ στρατηγοὺς τῶν ἄλλων. Καὶ δὴ ἔνοπλοι ἅπαντες γεγονότες, καὶ παρατάξεις αὖθις πεποιηκότες, ἢρξαντο κρότων τῶν τοῦ πολέμου. Τῶν γὰρ αὐτῶν σαλπίγγων σαλπισασῶν ἐναπήρξαντο πολεμεῖν πρὸς τὰς γαλέας· αἵ κατὰ κράτος τοὺς μύας ἡττήσασαι, ἔτρεψαν τοὺς δυστήνους εἰς φυγήν. Οἱ μὲν οὖν ἄοπλοι πεφευγότες ἐν τοῖς τοίχοις εἰσεληλύθεσαν εἰς ῥαγάδας αὐτίκα· οἱ δʼ ἔνοπλοι καὶ ἀρχηγέται τούτων, οἵ τε ἄρχοντες καὶ στρατηγοὶ τῶν ἄλλων, μὴ δυνάμενοι ἐν ταῖς ὀπαῖς ἐμβῆναι, διεφθάρησαν ἅπαντες ὑπὸ τῶν γαλεῶν.
Ὁ μῦθος δηλοῖ, ὅτι πρὸς τὸ ζῆν ἀκινδύνως κρείττων ἐστὶν ἡ εὐτέλεια, ἢ ἡ λαμπρότης καὶ δόξα τοῦ βίου.
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