O besedilu
Osel in lev
- Vir
- Ezopove basni
- Avtor
- Ezop / Karl Halm
- Jezik branja
- English
- Jezik izvirnika
- Ancient Greek
- Čas branja
- 1 min branja
- Obseg
- 1 stran
- Naslov izvirnika
- 323b. Ἄλλως. Ὄνος καὶ Λέων. (C. 66.)
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
Osel in lev
A rooster was once feeding alongside a donkey. When a lion approached the donkey, the rooster crowed, and the lion fled—for they say that lions are afraid of a rooster’s crow. The donkey, thinking the lion had fled because of him, immediately charged after it. But when he had pursued it so far that the rooster’s crow could no longer be heard, the lion turned and devoured him. As he lay dying, the donkey cried, “Wretched fool that I am! With no warriors for ancestors, why did I rush into battle?” The fable shows that many people attack enemies who deliberately make a show of weakness, and so meet their end at those enemies’ hands.
Izvirnik
323b. Ἄλλως. Ὄνος καὶ Λέων. (C. 66.)
Naslednje strani prikazujejo izvirno besedilo za primerjavo.
Ὄνῳ ποτὲ ἀλεκτρυὼν συνεβόσκετο. Λέοντος δʼ ἐπελθόντος τῷ ὄνῳ, ὁ ἀλεκτρυὼν ἐφώνησε· καὶ ὁ μὲν λέων (φασὶ γὰρ τοῦτον τὴν τοῦ ἀλεκτρυόνος φωνὴν φοβεῖσθαι) ἔφυγεν. Ὁ δʼ ὄνος, νομίσας διʼ αὑτὸν πεφευγέναι, ἐπέδραμεν εὐθὺς τῷ λέοντι. Ὡς δὲ πόῤῥω τοῦτον ἐδίωξεν, ἔνθα μηκέτι ἡ τοῦ ἀλεκτρυόνος ἐφικνεῖτο φωνὴ, στραφεὶς ὁ λέων τοῦτον κατεθοινήσατο. Ὁ δὲ θνήσκων ἐβόα· ,,ἄθλιος ἐγὼ καὶ ἀνόητος· πολεμιστῶν γὰρ μὴ ὢν γονέων, τίνος χάριν εἰς πόλεμον ἐξωρμήθην;“
Ὁ μῦθος δηλοῖ, ὅτι πολλοὶ τῶν ἀνθρώπων ταπεινουμένοις ἐπίτηδες τοῖς ἐχθροῖς ἐπιτίθενται, καὶ οὕτως ὑπʼ ἐκείνων ἀπόλλυνται.
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