Texte grec :
| [12,1] Ἀλλ´ ἦ τὸ λεγόμενον, ὦ ἄνδρες, ἐγὼ καὶ παρ´ ὑμῖν καὶ παρ´
ἑτέροις πλείοσι πέπονθα τὸ τῆς γλαυκὸς ἄτοπον καὶ παράδοξον
πάθος; ἐκείνην γὰρ οὐδὲν σοφωτέραν οὖσαν αὐτῶν οὐδὲ βελτίω
τὸ εἶδος, ἀλλὰ τοιαύτην ὁποίαν ἴσμεν, ὅταν δήποτε φθέγξηται
λυπηρὸν καὶ οὐδαμῶς ἡδύ, περιέπουσι τὰ ἄλλα ὄρνεα, καὶ ὅταν γε
ἴδῃ μόνον, τὰ μὲν καθιζόμενα ἐγγύς, τὰ δὲ κύκλῳ περιπετόμενα,
ὡς μὲν ἐμοὶ δοκεῖ, καταφρονοῦντα τῆς φαυλότητος καὶ τῆς ἀσθενείας·
οἱ δὲ ἄνθρωποί φασιν ὅτι θαυμάζει τὴν γλαῦκα τὰ ὄρνεα.
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Traduction française :
| [12,1] CAN it be, Sirs, that here before you, just as before
many another audience—to use a familiar saying - I have met with the strange
and inexplicable experience of the owl ? For though she is no whit
wiser than the other birds nor more beautiful in
appearance, but on the contrary only what we know
her to be, yet whenever she utters her mournful and
far from pleasing note, they all flock to her —yes,
and even when they merely see her, some alighting
near and others circling about her, the reason being,
as it seems to me, that they look with scorn upon her
insignificance and weakness ; and yet people in
general say that the birds admire the owl.
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