
English: 
Greetings!  Today I would like to relate to you an Aesop fable.  The name of this fable is "The Peacock Having Become King".
The birds in congress/convention want to make a king.

Modern Greek (1453-): 
ἀσπάζομαι ὑμᾶς!  τήμερον βουλοίμην ἂν ἐγὼ διέρχεσθαι ὑμῖν μῦθον Αἰσωπικὀν.  τὸ δὲ ὄνομα τούτου τοῦ μύθου >.
αἱ ὄρνιθες ἐν συνόδῳ βούλονται ποιῆσαι (+/- = ποιεῖν) βασιλέα.

Modern Greek (1453-): 
ἐρωτῶσιν οὖν, >

English: 
Therefore they ask, "Whom of us does it behoove to become king?"

English: 
And the Peacock, having arisen/picked himself up, makes speeches, saying, "I should become king of the birds! For I am the most beautiful of all."
And it seemed (good) to the others to make the peacock king. / The others decreed/resolved to make the peacock king.

Modern Greek (1453-): 
ὁ δὲ ταὼς, ἑαυτὸν ἐπάρων, λόγους ποιεῖται, λέγων, >
καὶ τοῖς ἄλλοις ἔδοξε (ἀγαθόν) ποιῆσαι τὸν ταὼν βασιλέα.

English: 
But a certain jackdaw, a wise one, having arisen/picked himself up, makes speeches, saying, "Surely YOU, (if) being king, if the eagle is present,...
are not able (= do not have the power) to save us?"

Modern Greek (1453-): 
ὁ δὲ κολοιός τις σοφὸς, ἑαυτὸν ἐπάρων, λόγους ποιεῖται, λέγων, <<ἆρα μῶν σὺ, βασιλεὺς ὢν, εἰ ὁ ἀετὸς πάρεστι,...
δύνασαι (= δύναμιν ἔχεις) σῴζειν ἡμᾶς;>>

Modern Greek (1453-): 
ὁ μῦθος δηλοῖ ὅτι δεῖ βασιλέα τὴν δύναμιν καὶ τὴν σοφίαν ἔχειν.
καλῶς.  χάριν ὑμῖν οἶδα.  ὑγιαίνετε!

English: 
The story makes clear that it behooves a king to have might and wisdom.
Splendid.  I am grateful to you all.  Farewell!
