Phryx Aesopus (Osius, 1574)
168. CANIS ET PASTOR. (Perry 0)
QUO sparsi custode greges errare solebant,
Est deprensus Ovem dilacerare Canis.
Pastor ut hunc ergo merito suadente necari
Arripit, anne tuo non mihi parcis, ait?
Ille: meos equidem, nocuos quos culpa fatetur,
Externis potius perdere caede velim.
Praecipue fidos falso quos esse putarim,
Nolleque sperarim rebus obesse meis.
Ne mirere, feras si laesus ab hoste dolorem,
Fallat amicorum cum data saepe fides.
Quae dedit hic ergo, tibi qui sese arguit hostem,
Lenius haec ideo damna ferenda putes.
At si, quos meritis ultro cumulaveris, obsint,
Hoc erit, indigne quod patiare, malum.
*** 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. |
