Waltey

Prevod

A young spendthrift had squandered his inheritance and had nothing left but a cloak. When he saw a swallow that had appeared out of season, he thought summer had already come and, believing he no longer needed his cloak, sold that too. Later, when winter returned and the weather grew bitter, he saw the swallow lying dead and said to it, “You there! You have been the ruin of me as well as yourself.” The fable shows that anything done out of season is dangerous.

Izvirnik

Nέος ἄσωτος, καταφαγὼν τὰ πατρῷα, ἱματίου δὲ μόνου αὐτῷ περιλειφθέντος, ὡς ἐθεάσατο χελιδόνα παρὰ καιρὸν ὀφθεῖσαν, οἰόμενος ἤδη θέρος εἶναι, ὡς μηκέτι δεόμενος ἱματίου, καὶ τοῦτο ἐπώλησεν. Ὕστερον δὲ, χειμῶνος ἐπιλαβομένου καὶ σφοδροῦ γενομένου τοῦ ἀέρος, ἐπειδὴ εἶδε τὴν χελιδόνα νεκρὰν κειμένην, ἔφη πρὸς αὐτήν· ,,ὦ αὕτη, σὺ κἀμὲ ἀπώλεσας.“

Ο μῦθος δηλοῖ, ὅτι πᾶν τὸ παρὰ καιρὸν πραττόμενον ἐπικίνδυνόν ἐστιν.

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