Aesop’s Fables 1

著： Aesop
発行：グーテンベルク21
シリーズ： Aesop’s Fables
価格：210円(税込)

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著者プロフィール

　イソップ
　正確な史実はいまだ解明されておらず、実在したかも定かでないが、紀元前６世紀頃のギリシャで、サモス人イアドモン王の奴隷であったという説が有力。

解説

　『イソップ物語』の英語版原書。
　奴隷だったイソップが、主人や自分をみくびる人々に対する保身の武器として語ったといわれる「イソップ物語」。弱者や一般市民ための知恵や教訓が多く描かれ、今なお世界中で語り継がれている作品。
　本編では“The Cock and the Pearl”から“The Fisher”まで、４２の物語を収録。

※本書はすべて英文です。

The Cock and the Pearl
The Wolf and the Lamb
The Dog and the Shadow
The Lion's Share
The Wolf and the Crane
The Man and the Serpent
The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse
The Fox and the Crow
The Sick Lion
The Ass and the Lapdog
The Lion and the Mouse
The Swallow and the Other Birds
The Frogs Desiring a King
The Mountains in Labour
The Hares and the Frogs
The Wolf and the Kid
The Woodman and the Serpent
The Bald Man and the Fly
The Fox and the Stork
The Fox and the Mask
The Jay and the Peacock
The Frog and the Ox
Androcles
The Bat, the Birds, and the Beasts
The Hart and the Hunter
The Serpent and the File
The Man and the Wood
The Dog and the Wolf
The Belly and the Members
The Hart in the Ox-Stall
The Fox and the Grapes
The Horse, Hunter, and Stag
The Peacock and Juno
The Fox and the Lion
The Lion and the Statue
The Ant and the Grasshopper
The Tree and the Reed
The Fox and the Cat
The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing
The Dog in the Manger
The Man and the Wooden God
The Fisher

抄録

The Cock and the Pearl

A cock was once strutting up and down the farmyard among thehens when suddenly he espied something shinning amid the straw."Ho! ho!" quoth he, "that's for me," and soon rooted it out frombeneath the straw. What did it turn out to be but a Pearl that bysome chance had been lost in the yard? "You may be a treasure,"quoth Master Cock, "to men that prize you, but for me I wouldrather have a single barley-corn than a peck of pearls."
Precious things are for those that can prize them.

The Wolf and the Lamb

Once upon a time a Wolf was lapping at a spring on a hillside,when, looking up, what should he see but a Lamb just beginning todrink a little lower down. "There's my supper," thought he, "ifonly I can find some excuse to seize it." Then he called out tothe Lamb, "How dare you muddle the water from which I amdrinking?"
"Nay, master, nay," said Lambikin; "if the water be muddy upthere, I cannot be the cause of it, for it runs down from you tome."
"Well, then," said the Wolf, "why did you call me bad namesthis time last year?"
"That cannot be," said the Lamb; "I am only six months old."
"I don't care," snarled the Wolf; "if it was not you it wasyour father;" and with that he rushed upon the poor little Lamband .WARRA WARRA WARRA WARRA WARRA .ate her all up. But before she died she gasped out ."Any excuse will serve a tyrant."