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Zevs kot sodnik

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O besedilu

Zevs kot sodnik

Vir
Ezopove basni
Avtor
Ezop / Karl Halm
Jezik branja
English
Jezik izvirnika
Ancient Greek
Čas branja
1 min branja
Obseg
1 stran
Naslov izvirnika
152. Ζεὺς κριτὴς. (C. 366 et p. 412. F. 365. B. 129.)

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

Zevs kot sodnik

Zeus instructed Hermes to record people’s misdeeds on potsherds and place them in a chest beside him, so that he could exact the penalty from each offender. But since the potsherds lay jumbled together, some came into Zeus’s hands sooner and others later, whenever he chose to pass judgment.

We should therefore not be surprised if a wicked man commits a wrong long before he suffers for it.

Izvirnik

152. Ζεὺς κριτὴς. (C. 366 et p. 412. F. 365. B. 129.)

Naslednje strani prikazujejo izvirno besedilo za primerjavo.

Ὁ Ζεὺς τὰς τῶν ἀνθρώπων ἁμαρτίας ἐν ὀστράκοις τὸν Ἑρμῆν ὥρισε γράφειν, καὶ εἰς κιβωτὸν ἀποτιθέναι πλησίον αὐτοῦ, ὅπως ἑκάστου τὰς δίκας ἀναπράσσῃ. Συγκεχυμένων δὲ τῶν ὀστράκων ἐπʼ ἀλλήλοις, τὸ μὲν βράδιον, τὸ δὲ τάχιον ἐμπίπτει εἰς τὰς τοῦ Διὸς χεῖρας, εἴποτε καλῶς κρίνοι.

Τῶν οὖν πονηρῶν οὐ προσῆκε θαυμάζειν, ἂν θᾶσσον ἀδικῶν τις, ὀψὲ κακῶς πράσσῃ.