O besedilu
Oslova senca
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- Ezopove basni
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- Jezik branja
- English
- Jezik izvirnika
- Ancient Greek
- Čas branja
- 1 min branja
- Obseg
- 1 stran
- Naslov izvirnika
- 339. Ὄνου σκιά. (F. 392. C. 320. ex Plut. Vitis X Orat. p. 401.)
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
Oslova senca
Demosthenes the orator, once prevented by the Athenians from speaking in the assembly, said that he wished to tell them something brief. When they fell silent, he said, “A young man hired a donkey one summer to travel from Athens to Megara. At midday, with the sun blazing fiercely, both he and the donkey’s owner wanted to shelter in its shade. But each tried to keep the other out: the owner said that he had hired out the donkey, not its shadow, while the young man claimed that, having hired it, he had every right to its shade.” With that, Demosthenes turned to leave. When the Athenians stopped him and begged him to finish the story, he said, “So you are willing to listen to a tale about a donkey’s shadow, but when I speak about serious matters, you will not listen?”
Izvirnik
339. Ὄνου σκιά. (F. 392. C. 320. ex Plut. Vitis X Orat. p. 401.)
Naslednje strani prikazujejo izvirno besedilo za primerjavo.
Δημοσθένης ὁ ῥήτωρ, λέγειν ποτὲ κωλυόμενος ὑπὸ Αθηναίων ἐν ἐκκλησίᾳ, βραχὺ ἔφη βούλεσθαι πρὸς αὐτοὺς εἰπεῖν. Τῶν δὲ σιωπησάντων, ,,Νεανίας “ εἶπε ,,θέρους ὥρᾳ ἐμισθώσατο ἐξ ἄστεος ὄνον Μεγάραδε. Μεσούσης δὲ τῆς ἡμέρας καὶ σφοδρῶς φλέγοντος τοῦ ἡλίου, ἑκάτερος αὐτῶν ἐβούλετο ὑποδύεσθαι ὑπὸ τὴν σκιάν· εἶργον δὲ ἀλλήλους, ὁ μὲν μεμισθωκέναι τὸν ὄνον, οὐ τὴν σκιὰν λέγων, ὁ δὲ μεμισθωμένος τὴν πᾶσαν ἔχειν ἐξουσίαν.“ Καὶ ταῦτα εἰπὼν ἀπῄει. Τῶν δὲ Ἀθηναίων ἐπισχόντων καὶ δεομένων πέρας ἐπιθεῖναι τῷ λόγῳ, ,,εἶθʼ ὑπὲρ μὲν ὄνου σκιᾶς“ ἔφη ,,βούλεσθε ἀκούειν, λέγοντος δὲ ὑπὲρ σπουδαίων πραγμάτων οὐ βούλεσθε;“
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