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18. FUR ET CANIS. (Perry 403)

FUR placare Canem latrantem nocte laborat,
Quem putat oblato velle silere cibo.
Cui Canis ut nunc sim pastu satiatus herili,
Non parce soleo munere cuius ali:
Insidiose domum si te spoliante tacerem,
Unde cibum vacuo postmodo ventre petam?
Aversere dolos fac impostoris et artes,
Blanditiis raro noris inesse fidem.
Consilium specta, non facta tegentia fraudem,
Arte scit insidiis ille vacare suis.

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.