O besedilu
Ptičar in gad
- Vir
- Ezopove basni
- Avtor
- Ezop / Karl Halm
- Jezik branja
- English
- Jezik izvirnika
- Ancient Greek
- Čas branja
- 1 min branja
- Obseg
- 1 stran
- Naslov izvirnika
- 171. Ἰξευτὴς καὶ Ἀσπίς. (S.114. C. 32. F. 225.)
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
Ptičar in gad
A birdcatcher took his birdlime and reeds and went out to hunt. Seeing a thrush perched in a tall tree, he decided to catch it. So he joined his reeds into one long pole and gazed intently upward, his mind wholly fixed on the sky. Looking up like this, he unwittingly stepped on an asp lying asleep at his feet. It turned and bit him, and as his strength failed, he said to himself, “Wretched man that I am! While trying to hunt another, I was caught unawares and hunted to my death.” So those who plot against their neighbors are often the first to fall into misfortune themselves.
Izvirnik
171. Ἰξευτὴς καὶ Ἀσπίς. (S.114. C. 32. F. 225.)
Naslednje strani prikazujejo izvirno besedilo za primerjavo.
Ἰξευτὴς ἀναλαβὼν ἰξὸν καὶ τοὺς καλάμους ἐξῆλθεν ἐπʼ ἄγραν· θεασάμενος δὲ κίχλαν ἐπί τινος ὑψηλοῦ δένδρου καθημένην, ταύτην συλλαβεῖν ἠβουλήθη. Καὶ δὴ ἀνάψας εἰς μῆκος τούς καλάμους, ἀτενὲς ἔβλεπεν, ὅλος ὢν πρὸς τῷ ἀέρι τὸν νοῦν. Τοῦτον δὲ τὸν τρόπον ἄνω νεύων ἔλαθεν ἀσπίδα πρὸ τῶν ἑαυτοῦ ποδῶν κοιμωμένην πατήσας, ἥτις ἐπιστραφεῖσα ἔπληξεν αὐτόν· ὁ δὲ λειποψυχῶν ἔφη πρὸς ἑαυτόν· „ἄθλιος ἔγωγε, ὃς ἕτερον θηρεῦσαι βουλόμενος, ἔλαθον αὐτὸς ἀγρευθεὶς εἰς θάνατον.“
Οὕτως οἱ τοῖς πέλας ἐπιβουλὰς ῥάπτοντες, φθάνουσιν αὐτοὶ συμφοραῖς περιπίπτοντες.
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