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158. MULIER ET NUX. (Perry 0)

NON afflicta nist cur Nux exuberet arbos [Reg: arbor]
Fructibus, hanc quaedam femina forte rogat?
Cui Nux: et te quod meliorem verbera reddunt,
Quodque Asinus plagis acrior esse solet.
Audiet obiciens aliis ingrata vicissim,
Et feret alternis verba molesta modis.

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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.