Phryx Aesopus (Osius, 1574)
134. ACCIPITER ET COLUMBA. (Perry
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VIS erat Accipitri vexandi dira Columbam,
Hanc fera dum praeceps insequeretur avis.
Impetus in villam deferret ut iste sequendi
Hunc pariter, quam sic acta Columba petit.
Captus ubi Agricolam, ne se necet, anxius orat,
Me dimitte pio corde misertus [(perhaps: miseritus?)] , ait.
Laesus es a me quod non ullo tempore nosti,
Haec mihi te merito parcere causa iubet.
Nec laesere mei te pessime, Villicus inquit,
Iamque manu fractam stragulat ille gulam.
Sic sibi subiectos Princeps defendat oportet,
Vellet ut hic vindex ipsius esse sui.
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. |
