Waltey

Prevod

A bone once became lodged in a wolf’s throat. He promised a crane a reward if she would put her head into his mouth and pull the bone out of his throat. She removed it and asked for her reward. The wolf laughed, bared his teeth, and said, “Let this alone be reward enough for you: you have drawn your head out of a wolf’s mouth and from between his teeth safe and unharmed.” The fable concerns deceitful people who, once rescued from danger, repay their benefactors merely by doing them no harm.

Izvirnik

Λύκου ποτὲ λαιμῷ ὀστέον ἐπάγη· τῇ δὲ γεράνῳ μισθὸν παρέξειν εἶπεν, εἰ τὴν κεφαλὴν αὐτῆς προσεπιβαλοῦσα, ἐξανασπάσαι ἐκ τοῦ λαιμοῦ αὐτοῦ τὸ ὀστοῦν Ἠ δὲ ἐκβαλοῦσα τὸν μισθὸν ἐπεζήτει. Γελάσας οὖν ὁ λύκος καὶ τοὺς ὀδόντας θήξας, „ἀρκεῖ σοι“ εἶπεν „ἀντὶ μισθοῦ τοῦτο καὶ μόνον, ὅτι ἐκ λύκου στόματος καὶ ὀδόντων ἐξεῖλες κάραν σῴαν μηδὲν παθοῦσαν.“

Ὁ μῦθος πρὸς ἄνδρας δολίους, οἵτινες ἐκ κινδύνων διασωθέντες, τοῦτο παρέχουσι τοῖς εὐεργέταις ἀντὶ χάριτος, τὸ μὴ βλάψαι αὐτούς.

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