O besedilu
Orel in hrošč
- Vir
- Ezopove basni
- Avtor
- Ezop / Karl Halm
- Jezik branja
- English
- Jezik izvirnika
- Ancient Greek
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- Obseg
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- Naslov izvirnika
- 7. Ἀετὸς καὶ Κάνθαρος. (S.3. C. 2. F. 223.)
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
Orel in hrošč
An eagle was pursuing a hare. With no one to help him, the hare caught sight of a dung beetle, the only creature chance had put in his path, and begged for protection. The beetle reassured him and, when he saw the eagle approaching, pleaded with it not to carry off one who had sought his protection. But the eagle, scorning the beetle’s small size, devoured the hare before his very eyes. From that day on, the beetle nursed his grudge, keeping watch over the eagle’s nests. Whenever the eagle laid eggs, he flew up, rolled them out, and smashed them. At last, driven from every nesting place, the eagle took refuge with Zeus—for the eagle is sacred to Zeus—and begged him for a safe place to raise its young. Zeus allowed the eagle to lay its eggs in his lap. Seeing this, the beetle made a ball of dung, flew up, and dropped it into Zeus’s lap. Zeus sprang to his feet to shake off the dung and unwittingly sent the eggs tumbling to the ground. Since then, they say, eagles do not nest during the season when dung beetles appear.
The fable teaches us to despise no one, remembering that no one is so powerless that, when insulted, they cannot take revenge.
Izvirnik
7. Ἀετὸς καὶ Κάνθαρος. (S.3. C. 2. F. 223.)
Naslednje strani prikazujejo izvirno besedilo za primerjavo.
Ἀετὸς λαγωὸν ἐδίωκεν· ὁ δὲ ἐν ἐρημίᾳ τῶν βοηθηόντων ὑπάρχων, ὃν μόνον ὁ καιρὸς παρέσχε κάνθαρον ἰδὼν, τοῦτον ἱκέτευεν. Ὁ δὲ παραθαῤῥύνας αὐτὸν, ὡς ἐγγὺς ἐλθόντα τὸν ἀετὸν ἐθεάσατο, παρεκάλει μὴ ἀπάγειν αὐτοῦ τὸν ἱκέτην· κἀκεῖνος ὑπεριδὼν τὴν σμικρότητα, ἐν ὄψει κανθάρου τὸν λαγωὸν κατεθοινήσατο. Ὁ δὲ ἀπʼ ἐκείνου μνησικακῶν διετέλει, παρατηρούμενος τοῦ ἀετοῦ τὰς καλιὰς, καὶ εἴ ποτε ἐκεῖνος ἔτικτε, μετάρσιος διαιρόμενος ἐκύλιε τὰ ὠὰ καὶ κατέασσε, μέχρις οὗ πανταχόθεν ἐλαυνόμενος ὁ ἀετὸς ἐπὶ τὸν Δία κατέφυγεν (ἐστὶ δὲ τοῦ Διὸς ἱερὸς ὁ ὄρνις), καὶ αὐτοῦ ἐδεήθη, τόπον αὐτῷ πρὸς νεοττοποιίαν ἀσφαλῆ παρασχεῖν. Τοῦ δὲ Διὸς ἐν τοῖς κόλποις αὐτοῦ τίκτειν ἐπιτρέψαντος αὐτῷ, ὁ κάνθαρος τοῦτο ἑωρακὼς, κόπρου σφαῖραν ποιήσας ἀνέπτη, καὶ γενόμενος κατὰ τοὺς τοῦ Διὸς κόλπους, ἐνταῦθα καθῆκεν. Ὁ δὲ Ζεὺς ἀποδύσασθαι τὴν κόπρον βουλόμενος, ὡς διανέστη, ἔλαθεν ἀποῤῥίψας τὰ ὠά· ἀπʼ ἐκείνου τε φασὶ, περὶ ὃν καιρὸν οἱ κάνθαροι γίνονται, τοὺς ἀετούς μὴ νεοττεύειν.
Ὁ λόγος δηλοῖ, μηδενὸς καταφρονεῖν, λογιζομένους, ὅτι οὐδεὶς οὕτω ἐστὶν ἀδύνατος, ὡς προπηλακισθεὶς μὴ δύνασθαι ἑαυτὸν ἐκδικῆσαι.
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