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194. AUCEPS ET CASSITA. (Perry 193)

MOre suo laqueos disponere coeperat Auceps,
Usus ut arte sua fallere posset aves.
Hoc opus admirans Cassita propinquat, et illi
Ingeniose novi quid struis, inquit, homo?
Huic ait ille dolum celando, condimus urbem
Et latebras structis omnibus arte petit.
Cernere cauta parum cupiens avis advolat urbem,
Quam mox implicitam retibus ille capit.
Quae iam capta, novas si sic, ait, exstruis urbes,
Has habitare volens incola rarus erit.
Non tuta tunc pace domus habitantur, et urbes,
Saevit in has cum vis, cumque rapina ducum.

This illustration from Fable 239 would fit here.

*** The drawing does not fit the fable. ***
The image also appears at Fable 63, 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.