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Κύνες λέοντος δορὰν σπαράττοντες

The Dogs Gnawing The Lion-Skin = Perry 406 (English translation: Oxford Aesop 231)

Λέοντος δορὰν κύνες εὑρόντες διεσπάραττον ταύτην. τούτοις δὲ ἀλώπηξ ἰδοῦσα ἔφη “εἰ οὗτος ὁ λέων τοῖς ζῶσι συνῆν, εἴδετε ἂν τοὺς αὐτοῦ ὄνυχας ἰσχυροτέρους τῶν ὑμετέρων ὀδόντων.”

Οὗτος δηλοῖ πρὸς τοὺς τῶν ἐνδόξων καταφρονοῦντας, ὅταν τῆς ἀρχῆς καὶ δόξης ἐκπίπτωσι.

From Ben Perry’s Aesopica (Urbana IL: 1952).

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Λέοντος δορὰν

κύνες εὑρόντες

διεσπάραττον ταύτην.

τούτοις δὲ

ἀλώπηξ

ἰδοῦσα ἔφη

“εἰ οὗτος ὁ λέων

τοῖς ζῶσι συνῆν,

εἴδετε ἂν

τοὺς αὐτοῦ ὄνυχας

ἰσχυροτέρους

τῶν ὑμετέρων ὀδόντων.”

Οὗτος δηλοῖ

πρὸς τοὺς

τῶν ἐνδόξων καταφρονοῦντας,

ὅταν

τῆς ἀρχῆς καὶ δόξης

ἐκπίπτωσι.

Grammatical notes and comments:

Λέοντος δορὰν

κύνες εὑρόντες

διεσπάραττον ταύτην.

τούτοις δὲ

ἀλώπηξ

  • ἰδοῦσα ἔφη - the dative τούτοις goes with the finite verb ἔφη, but not the participle: she saw (what was going on) and said to them

“εἰ οὗτος ὁ λέων

  • τοῖς ζῶσι συνῆν, - we would say in English "among the living"

εἴδετε ἂν

τοὺς αὐτοῦ ὄνυχας

ἰσχυροτέρους

  • τῶν ὑμετέρων ὀδόντων.” - genitive of comparison

Οὗτος δηλοῖ

πρὸς τοὺς

τῶν ἐνδόξων καταφρονοῦντας,

ὅταν

  • τῆς ἀρχῆς καὶ δόξης - genitive complement with the verb ἐκπίπτωσι (ἐκ-)
  • ἐκπίπτωσι. - subject of this verb is provided by the adjective ἐνδόξων, not by the participle καταφρονοῦντας

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