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139. ASINUS ET VITULUS. (Perry 0)

CUm Vitulo carpebat, erant quae gramina prato,
Quod satis est notum voce rudente, pecus.
Adventare feros quo discunt protinus hostes,
Pulsato signum coeperat aere dari.
Tum dicente fugam Vitulo celeremus oportet,
Iuverit hostili nos nisi caede mori.
Ipse fugam, cui mors est certa timenda capessas,
Me fors nulla recens terret, Asellus ait.
Nam seruire meum, durosque subire labores
Portandi, misero dum mihi vita manet.
Seu contingat hero quia cive, aut hoste potiri,
AErumnosa mihi tempora semper erunt.
Fac ea nil aliis mala permutare timescas,
Ferre tamen nosti quaesine fine tuum.

*** The drawing does not fit the fable. ***
This image recurs at Fable 278, and also at Fable 80 where it does fit.


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.