
English: 
Greetings! Today I really want to tell y'all a story written by Aesop.  The title of this story is "The Dancing Monkeys".
A certain Egyptian king once (upon a time) taught monkeys (how) to dance.

Modern Greek (1453-): 
ἀσπάζομαι ὑμᾶς! τήμερον ἐπιθυμῶ διηγήσασθαι ὑμῖν διήγημα ὑπὸ τοῦ Αἰσώπου συγραφθέν.  ἡ δὲ ἐπιγραφὴ τούτου τοῦ διηγήματος >.
βασιλεύς τις Αἰγύπτιος πιθήκους ποτὲ ὀρχεῖσθαι ἐδίδαξεν.

English: 
And the beasts (for they very eagerly mimic humans), having learned quickly began to dance splendidly while wearing clothes and masks.

Modern Greek (1453-): 
καὶ τὰ θηρία, μιμεῖται γὰρ προθυμότατα τοὺς ἀνθρώπους, διὰ ταχέων μαθόντα καλῶς ὠρχεῖτο, φοροῦντα ἱμάτια καὶ πρόσωπα.

English: 
And for a long time these monkeys were famous.
But in the end a certain witty spectator, having some nuts in his pocket, threw them into their midst.

Modern Greek (1453-): 
καὶ πολὺν μὲν χρόνον οὗτοι οἱ πίθηκοι μάλιστα εὐδοκίμουν.
τέλος δὲ θεατής τις ἀστεῖος, κάρυα ἐν κόλπῳ ἔχων, ἀφῆκεν ἐς τὸ μέσον.

English: 
And the monkeys, having seen (this), stopped dancing and became monkeys (again) instead of dancers.
And having hurled off their clothes and masks they began to fight with each other over (lit: about) the nuts.

Modern Greek (1453-): 
οἱ δὲ πίθηκοι ἰδόντες ἐπαύσαντο ὀρχούμενοι καὶ πίθηκοι ἐγένοντο ἀντὶ ὀρχηστῶν.
καὶ τά τε ἱμάτια καὶ τὰ πρόσωπα ἀποβαλόντες ἐμάχοντο περὶ τῶν καρύων πρὸς ἀλλήλους.
