# Fabulae Aesopeae 1.2.57

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

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/babrius/fabulae-aesopeae/1.2.57

Ἑρμῆς ἅμαξαν ψευσμάτων τε πληρώσας
ἀπάτης τε πολλῆς καὶ πανουργίης πάσης
ἤλαυνε διὰ γῆς, ἄλλο φῦλον ἐξ ἄλλου
σχεδίην ἀμείβων καὶ μέρος τι τῶν ὤνων
νέμων ἑκάστῳ μικρόν. ὡς δὲ τῷ χώρῳ
τῷ τῶν Ἀράβων ἐπῆλθε καὶ διεξῄει,
λέγουσιν αὐτοῦ συντριβεῖσαν ἐξαίφνης
ἐπισταθῆναι τὴν ἅμαξαν. οἳ δʼ ὥσπερ
πολύτιμον ἁρπάζοντες ἐμπόρου φόρτον,
ἐκένωσαν αὐτὴν οὐδʼ ἀφῆκαν εἰς ἄλλους
ἔτι προελθεῖν, καίπερ ὄντας, ἀνθρώπους.
ἐντεῦθεν Ἄραβές εἰσιν, ὡς ἐπειράθην,
ψεῦσταί τε καὶ γόητες, ὧν ἐπὶ γλώσσης
οὐδὲν κάθηται ῥῆμα τῆς ἀληθείης.

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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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