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181. LEO, ASINUS, LEPUS. (Perry 0)

BElla movens punire Leo cum forte volucres
Vellet, et hoc acri Marte moveret opus:
Ille recenseri bellantum [(perhaps: bellandum?)] more cohortes,
Sint sibi quanta volens agmina scire, iubet.
Tunc Asino, Leporique una qui praeterit, Urso
Hunc quaerente vices quas dare speret, ait:
Ad loca commissas feret hic longinqua tabellas,
Ille suo tubicen munere noster erit.
Non humilem quemquam sua sic natura creavit,
Utilis haud vello possit ut esse modo.

(The image fits the fable to some degree, but it might also be an image recycled from Perry 151.)


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.