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Phryx Aesopus (Osius, 1574)

141. CAPI. (Perry 0)

MOris aves castrare, Capos quos nomine dicunt,
Quod fieri pingues hac ratione putant.
Hos multos numero fortasse colonus alebat,
Corpora qui fiant his ut opima facit.
Cura saginando sed nil profecit in uno,
Qui reliquis macro corpore risus erat.
At iugulare, suis qui membris pinguibus essent,
Convivas referens affore iussit herus.
Tum stulti quod obesa sibi sensere nocerent
Membra, vari fuerant quae decus ante suum.
Tutius est inopem multo traducere vitam,
Quam cum divitiis usque pavere metis.

*** The drawing does not fit the fable. ***
It looks like it would go better with Fable 1.

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.