O besedilu
Volk in jagnje
- Vir
- Ezopove basni
- Avtor
- Ezop / Karl Halm
- Jezik branja
- English
- Jezik izvirnika
- Ancient Greek
- Čas branja
- 1 min branja
- Obseg
- 1 stran
- Naslov izvirnika
- 274b . Ἄλλως. Λύκος καὶ Ἀρήν. (S. 152. C. 229.)
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
Volk in jagnje
A wolf saw a lamb drinking from a river and wanted to devour him on some plausible pretext. So he stood upstream and accused the lamb of muddying the water and preventing him from drinking. The lamb replied that he was drinking with only the tips of his lips, and that, in any case, since he stood downstream, he could not possibly disturb the water above him. Having failed with this accusation, the wolf said, “But last year you insulted my father.” When the lamb answered that he had not even been born then, the wolf said to him, “However many excuses you may find, I shall devour you all the same.” The fable shows that no just defense carries any weight with those bent on doing wrong.
Izvirnik
274b . Ἄλλως. Λύκος καὶ Ἀρήν. (S. 152. C. 229.)
Naslednje strani prikazujejo izvirno besedilo za primerjavo.
Λύκος θεασάμενος ἄρνα ἀπό τινος ποταμοῦ πίνοντα, τοῦτον ἠβουλήθη μετά τινος εὐλόγου αἰτίας καταθοινήσασθαι. Διόπερ στὰς ἀνωτέρω ᾐτιᾶτο αὐτὸν ὡς θολοῦντα τὸ ὕδωρ, καὶ πίνειν αὐτὸν οὐκ ἐῶντα. Τοῦ δὲ λέγοντος, ὡς ἄκροις τοῖς χείλεσι πίνει, καὶ ἄλλως οὐ δυνατὸν, αὐτοῦ ἑστῶτος κάτω, ἐπάνω ταράσσειν τὸ ὕδωρ, ὁ λύκος ἀποτυχὼν ταύτης τῆς αἰτίας ἔφη· „ἀλλὰ πέρυσι τὸν πατέρα μου ἐλοιδόρησας.“ Εἰπόντος δὲ ἐκείνου, μηδέπω τότε γεννηθῆναι, ὁ λύκος ἔφη πρὸς αὐτόν· „κἂν σὺ ἀπολογιῶν εὐπορῇς, ἐγώ σε οὐχ ἧττον κατέδομαι.“
Ὁ λόγος δηλοῖ, ὅτι οἷς πρόθεσίς ἐστιν ἀδικεῖν, παρʼ αὐτοῖς οὐδὲ δικαία ἀπολογία ἰσχύει.
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