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103. ARUNDO ET OLEA seu Quercus. (Perry 70)

QUERCUS, et adversans illi contendit Arundo,
Utraque praestantem se magis esse refert.
Tune quamvis Quercu quod mobilis esset ad auram
Obiciente, lubens Canna modesta tacet.
Tempore sed parvo post diruta turbine Quercus
Dicitur, et ramis fracta fuisse suis.
At varie flectens se ventis cessit Arundo,
Hac ea non frangi mobilitate potest.
Laudandi potius sunt, qui concedere norunt,
Quam prae se fortes qui superare parant.
Noveris esse Deo, convellat ut ardua, morem,
Stare diu quo non summa premente valent.

Compare also the image shown for Fable 106.

Phryx Aesopus Habitu Poetico, by Hieronymus Osius, 1574 (artist not identified). Available online at the University of Mannheim. This book clearly recycles a set of images from another book of Aesop's fables. In some cases, the illustration does not match the fable shown, and in some cases I have not been able to identify what fable a given illustration is supposed to illustrate.