Friday, January 26, 2024

The Donkey That Learned Not to Eat

Easy Greek Reader by Evelyn Abbott. Internet Archive link. There are notes for the stories (this is story 16 in the section called "Wisdom of Fools"), and a vocabulary in the back of the book. In addition to the Wisdom of Fools, the book features Aesop's fables and stories from the Life of Aesop.

Σχολαστικός θέλων τὸν ὄνον αὐτοῦ διδάξαι μὴ τρώγειν, οὐ παρέβαλεν αὐτῷ τροφάς. ἀποθανόντος δὲ τοῦ ὄνου ἀπὸ λιμοῦ, ἔλεγε· "μεγάλα ἐζημιώθην· ὅτε γὰρ ἔμαθε μὴ τρώγειν, τότε ἀπέθανεν."

Σχολαστικός
θέλων διδάξαι
τὸν ὄνον αὐτοῦ 
μὴ τρώγειν,
οὐ παρέβαλεν αὐτῷ
τροφάς.

ἀποθανόντος δὲ τοῦ ὄνου
ἀπὸ λιμοῦ,
ἔλεγε·

"μεγάλα ἐζημιώθην·
ὅτε γὰρ
ἔμαθε μὴ τρώγειν,
τότε ἀπέθανεν."



"Scholasticus" (the fool)
Σχολαστικός 
wanted to teach his donkey
not to eat
θέλων 
τὸν ὄνον αὐτοῦ διδάξαι
μὴ τρώγειν 
and did not give him
 fodder
οὐ παρέβαλεν αὐτῷ 
τροφάς. 
when the donkey died
from hunger
ἀποθανόντος δὲ τοῦ ὄνου
ἀπὸ λιμοῦ 
the fool said
ἔλεγε 
"I've suffered a great loss!"
μεγάλα ἐζημιώθην· 
for just when he learned
how to not eat
ὅτε γὰρ ἔμαθε μὴ τρώγειν 
he died
τότε ἀπέθανεν."


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