O besedilu
Volk in osel
- Vir
- Ezopove basni
- Avtor
- Ezop / Karl Halm
- Jezik branja
- English
- Jezik izvirnika
- Ancient Greek
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- Naslov izvirnika
- 281. Λύκος καὶ Ὄνος. (F. 111. C.235 et p. 380.)
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 osel
A wolf, having become leader of the other wolves, laid down a law for them all: whatever any of them caught in the hunt was to be brought into the common stock and shared among them all. An ass, hearing this, shook his mane and said with a laugh, “Well spoken, chief of the wolves! But why did you secretly stash away in your own den the prey you caught yesterday, to eat it yourself? Bring it out to be shared among everyone.” Taken aback, the wolf repealed his laws.
The fable shows that those who profess to lay down laws do not themselves abide by the rules they prescribe and enforce.
Izvirnik
281. Λύκος καὶ Ὄνος. (F. 111. C.235 et p. 380.)
Naslednje strani prikazujejo izvirno besedilo za primerjavo.
Λύκος, τῶν λοιπῶν λύκων στρατηγήσας, πᾶσιν ἔταξε νόμον αὐτοῖς προτείνας, ἵνʼ, ὅ,τι τις αὐτῶν δηποτοῦν κυνηγήσῃ, εἰς μέσον ἀγάγῃ, καὶ μοιράσῃ τοῖς πᾶσι. Ταῦτʼ οὖν ὄνος ἀκηκοὼς, τὴν χαίτην ἔσεισε καὶ γελῶν ἔφη τάδε· „καλῶς εἴρηκας, ὦ πρώταρχε τῶν λύκων· ἀλλὰ πῶς σὺ χθὲς ἣν ἐκράτησας ἄγραν, κοίτῃ παρέθου τῇ ἰδίᾳ λαθραίως εἰς τροφήν σοι; κόμισον ταύτην μερισθῆναι τοῖς πᾶσιν.“ Ὁ δὲ θαμβηθεὶς κατέλυσε τοὺς νόμους.
Ὁ μῦθος δηλοῖ, ὅτι οἱ τοὺς νόμους ὁρίζειν δοκοῦντες, ἐν οἷς ἂν ὁρίζωσι καὶ δικάζωσιν, οὐκ ἐμμένουσιν.
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