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142. EQUUS NOVITIUS. (Perry 0)

QUI mercatus Equum fuerat, quo viribus illi
Ante tamen validis acrior alter erat.
Est huic cura novum multo iam maior alendi,
Praebuit huic gratum copia larga cibum.
Ut miratus et ipse cibo cur largius uti
Se velit, a socio scire laboret, herus.
Huic ait alter: heri non haec nova facta putentur,
Nec mirere tibi quod magis ille favet.
Hoc qui more refert varie mutabile vulgus,
Cui nova consuetis esse priora solent.
Sic hominum natura, capi novitate solemus,
Et sua iam tritis gratia rebus abest.

*** The drawing does not fit the fable. ***

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.