# Fabulae Aesopeae 1.2.177

Babrius, Fabulae Aesopeae, Book 1, Chapter 2. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/babrius/fabulae-aesopeae/1.2.177

Ποδῶν χελώνης κατεγέλα τε κἀργίης
λαγωός· ἣ δʼ ἔφη πρὸς αὐτὸν τοιαῦτα·
,,ἐγὼ σὲ τὸν ταχύποδα ποσσὶ νικήσω“.
ὃ δὲ λόγῳ μόνῳ, χελώνη,
λέγεις τοῦτο· ἀλλʼ ἔριζε καὶ γνώσῃ ʼ
,,τίς δὲ τὸν τόπον ὁρίσει“ ἔφη ,,καὶ βραβεύσει τὴν νίκην;“ (e);
‘ἀλώπηξʼ ἔφη ‘ἡ δικαία καὶ σοφωτάτη.ʼ ἔταξε δὲ τὴν
ἀρχὴν τῆς ὥρας (e) τοῦ δρόμου· ἡ δὲ χελώνη μὴ ὁᾳθυμήσασα
ἤρξατο τῆς ὀδοῦ πρὸς τὸ αὑτῆς ἀφορῶσα δυσκίνητον·
ὁ δὲ λαγωὸς τοῖς ποσὶ θαρρῶν ἐκοιμήθη (e). ἐλθὼν δὲ ἐπὶ
τὸν ὡρισμένον τόπον εὗρε τὴν χελώνην νικήσασαν.

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Babrius, Fabulae Aesopeae, ed. Otto Crusius. Text: The Greek Library, from the Perseus Digital Library and other open sources, CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: apostrophes normalised and the text divided into reading sections by Interlinea.
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