O besedilu
Osel in mula
- Vir
- Ezopove basni
- Avtor
- Ezop / Karl Halm
- Jezik branja
- English
- Jezik izvirnika
- Ancient Greek
- Čas branja
- 1 min branja
- Obseg
- 1 stran
- Naslov izvirnika
- 177b. Αλλως. Ὄνος καὶ Ἡμίονος. (S. 177. F. 133. C. p.328.)
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 mula
A donkey driver loaded a donkey and a mule and drove them on their way. As long as the ground was level, the donkey bore up under his burden; but when they came to a steep slope, he could no longer carry it and begged the mule to take a little of his load so that he could manage the rest. The mule paid no heed to his pleas, and the donkey fell over the precipice and was dashed to pieces. The driver, at a loss what to do, not only added the donkey’s load to the mule’s but also skinned the donkey and laid his hide on her back. Worn out by the crushing weight, she said to herself, “I have got what I deserve. If I had listened when the donkey begged me to lighten his burden a little, I would not now be carrying both his load and his hide.” So too, some lenders, in their greed, refuse to make even small concessions to their debtors and often lose their principal as well.
Izvirnik
177b. Αλλως. Ὄνος καὶ Ἡμίονος. (S. 177. F. 133. C. p.328.)
Naslednje strani prikazujejo izvirno besedilo za primerjavo.
Ὀνηλάτης, ἐπιθεὶς ὄνῳ καὶ ἡμιόνῳ γόμους, ἤλαυνεν. Ὁ δὲ ὄνος, μέχρι μὲν λεῖος τόπος ἦν, ἀντεῖχε πρὸς τὸ βάρος· ὡς δὲ ἐγένοντο κατά τινα κρημνὸν, μὴ δυνάμενος ὑποφέρειν, παρεκάλει τὴν ἡμίονον, μέρος τι τοῦ γόμου αὐτοῦ προσδέξασθαι, ἵνα τὸ λοιπὸν αὐτὸς διακομίσηται. Τῆς δὲ παρʼ οὐδὲν θεμένης αὐτοῦ τοὺς λόγους, ὁ μὲν κατακρημνισθεὶς διερῥάγη· ὁ δὲ ὀνηλάτης, ἀπορῶν ὅ,τι ποιήσει, οὐ μόνον τὸν γόμον τοῦ ὄνου τῇ ἡμιόνῳ προσέθηκεν, ἀλλὰ καὶ αὐτὸν τὸν ὄνον ἐκδείρας ἐπέθηκεν αὐτῇ. δὲ οὐ μετρίως καταπονηθεῖσα ἔφη πρὸς ἑαυτήν· ,,δίκαια πέπονθα· εἰ γὰρ παρακαλοῦντι τῷ ὄνῳ μικρὰ κουφίσαι ἐπείσθην, οὐκ ἂν νῦν μετὰ τῶν αὐτοῦ φορτίων καὶ αὐτὸν ἔφερον.“
Οὕτω καὶ τῶν δανειστῶν ἔνιοι διὰ φιλαργυρίαν, ἵνα μικρὰ τοῖς χρεώσταις μὴ παράσχωσι, πολλάκις καὶ αὐτὸ τὸ κεφάλαιον ἀπολλύουσι.
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