Aesop 114: The Fox & the Hedgehog
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Translation by VL user Chaered in 2025. First posted on VL, on 2025-12-22; not reviewed yet.
Motto: Better to bear a lesser evil than to risk a greater in removing it.
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【1】 Rusco ar Ecellë
► The Fox & the Hedgehog
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【3】 Rusco lútiénë lanna sírë, hraië ániénes i ráva, ar tassë caiteánes nirwa ar amalumba ampolliëryallo i linta siriénen. Rongo umba sercilixa itsion harunes sessë; mal caines quilda, tensi folda han hónoroitë tello.
► A Fox, swimming across a river, was barely able to reach the bank, where he lay bruised and exhausted from his struggle with the swift current. Soon a swarm of blood-sucking flies settled on him; but he lay quietly, still too weak to run away from them.
【4】 Ecellë mennë arë. “Ányë horta öa i itsi,” eques naþima.
► A Hedgehog happened by. "Let me drive the flies away," he said kindly.
【5】 “Vá, vá!” holtunë i Rusco, “Áva peresta te! Amápiëltë ilqua ya polintë camya. Qui hortalyë te öa, hyana milca umba tuluva ar mapuva i cina sercë ya lemya nissë.”
► "No, no!" exclaimed the Fox, "do not disturb them! They have taken all they can hold. If you drive them away, another greedy swarm will come and take the little blood I have left."
【7】 Eques: Tavië níca úro ná arya epë nai cavë amba úro apa aucolë sa.
► Motto: Better to bear a lesser evil than to risk a greater in removing it.