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140. PASTORES. (Perry 453)

PAstores quidam, convivia laeta pararent,
Mactarant tenero corpore forsan Ovem.
Hoc ubi qui circum ferus ibat ovilia praedo
Cerneret, has voces edidit ore Lupus:
Quod mihi praedanti si rapta vel agna fuisset,
Quam subito turbam talia facta darent?
Tunc ait unus, ut aure notat, quam caedimus, Agnae
Carne frui frustra nos scelerate doles.
Liberius multo, quibus ampla potentia, peccant,
Impia culpari nec sua facta sinunt.

*** The drawing does not fit the fable. ***
Compare also the image at Fable 274 (also does not fit). It looks like an illustration for Perry 575.

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.