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175. VULPES ET LEPUS. (Perry 0)

FLagitat, ingenii cum vi sit praedita Vulpes,
Ut pariter cursus ornet honore, Iovem.
At Lepus, ante valent cui crura fugacia cursu,
A Iove versuti pectoris orat opem.
Respondisse Iovem perhibent: sua quamlibet ornant
Dona feram, quae non huic nisi pulchra dedi.
Omnia nec temere largirer oportuit uni,
Si faciam, reliquis invidiosus ero.
Non bona lance pari Deus omnibus omnia confert,
Dotibus hic animi, corporis ille valet.

*** The drawing does not fit the fable. ***
The same image appears at Fable 35, where it seems to fit.

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.