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Phryx Aesopus (Osius, 1574)

17. MILVUS ET COLUMBAE. (Perry 486)

ACCIPITREM Milui iunxere timore Columbae
Praesidii saevam spe potioris avem.
Qui simul est admissus, in has saevire videri
Iure volens, fidas esse negabat aves.
Inque columbari strages hinc edita maior,
Quam Milui poterat vi foris ulla dari.
Parce tuam, qui sunt crudeles credere vitam,
Praesidia ex illis esse cruenta solent.


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.