O besedilu
Slavec in jastreb
- Vir
- Ezopove basni
- Avtor
- Ezop / Karl Halm
- Jezik branja
- English
- Jezik izvirnika
- Ancient Greek
- Čas branja
- 1 min branja
- Obseg
- 1 stran
- Naslov izvirnika
- 9. Ἀηδὼν καὶ Ἱέραξ. (S. 4. C. 3 et p. 281. F. 2.)
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
Slavec in jastreb
A nightingale was perched in a tall oak, singing as she always did. A hawk, who was short of food, caught sight of her, swooped down, and seized her. As he was about to kill her, she begged him to let her go, saying that she was not big enough to fill a hawk’s belly, and that if he needed food, he ought to turn his attention to larger birds. But he replied, “I would be a fool indeed if I let go of the meal already in my grasp to pursue prey not yet in sight.” The fable shows that people, too, are foolish when they give up what they have in hand in the hope of something greater.
Izvirnik
9. Ἀηδὼν καὶ Ἱέραξ. (S. 4. C. 3 et p. 281. F. 2.)
Naslednje strani prikazujejo izvirno besedilo za primerjavo.
Ἀηδὼν ἐπί τινος ὑψηλῆς δρυὸς καθημένη κατὰ τὸ σύνηθες ᾖδεν· ἱέραξ δὲ αὐτὴν θεασάμενος, ὡς ἠπόρει τροφῆς, ἐπιπτὰς συνέλαβεν· ἡ δὲ μέλλουσα ἀναιρεῖσθαι ἐδέετο μεθεῖναι αὐτὴν, λέγουσα, ὡς οὐχ ἱκανή ἐστιν ἱἐρακος γαστέρα αὐτὴ πληρῶσαι· δεῖν δὲ αὐτὸν, εἰ τροφῆς ἀπορεῖ, ἐπὶ τὰ μείζονα τῶν ὀρνέων τρέπεσθαι. Καὶ ὃς ὑποτυχὼν εἶπεν· ,,ἀλλ’ ἔγωγε ἀπόπληκτος ἄν εἴην, εἰ τὴν ἐν χερσὶν ἑτοίμην βορὰν ἀφεὶς τὰ μηδέπω φαινόμενα διώκοιμι.“
Ὁ λόγος δηλοῖ, ὡς οὕτω καὶ τῶν ἀνθρώπων ἀλόγιστοί εἰσιν οἳ δι’ ἐλπίδα μειζόνων [πραγμάτων] τὰ ἐν χερσὶν ὄντα προΐενται.
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