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173. ROTA ET VECTOR. (Perry 0)

CUR Auriga Rotae viciatae stridula nobis
Oggannire soles, curque gemiscis, ait?
Respondisse Rotam perhibent: adflicta laboro,
Non igitur passum non gemebunda queri.
Exercent miseri tristi cum voce querelas,
His veniam facili nos dare mente decet.

*** The drawing does not fit the fable. ***
The same image also appears at Fable 290, but does not fit. It looks like an illustration for Fable 498.

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.