Texte grec :
| [12,7] ὅθεν οἶμαι καὶ τὸν μῦθον Αἴσωπος ξυνέστησεν ὅτι σοφὴ
οὖσα ξυνεβούλευε τοῖς ὀρνέοις τῆς δρυὸς ἐν ἀρχῇ φυομένης μὴ ἐᾶσαι,
ἀλλ´ ἀνελεῖν πάντα τρόπον· ἔσεσθαι γὰρ φάρμακον ἀπ´ αὐτῆς
ἄφυκτον, ὑφ´ οὗ ἁλώσονται, τὸν ἰξόν. πάλιν δὲ τὸ λίνον τῶν
ἀνθρώπων σπειρόντων, ἐκέλευε καὶ τοῦτο ἐκλέγειν τὸ σπέρμα·
μὴ γὰρ ἐπ´ ἀγαθῷ φυήσεσθαι.
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Traduction française :
| [12,7] And this, I imagine, is the reason why Aesop composed
the fable in which he represents her as being wise and
as advising the birds, when the first oak tree began
to grow, not to let it happen, but by all means to
destroy the plant; for, she explained, the tree would
produce a drug from which none might escape, the
bird-lime, and they would be caught by it. Again,
when men were sowing flax, she bade them pick up
this seed also, since if it grew, no good would come from it.
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