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Phryx Aesopus (Osius, 1574)

206. PISCATOR. (Perry 11)

NON bene qui pisces capiendi noverat artem,
Huic sonat ad liquidas tibia carmen aquas.
Sic fore sperat iners, ut se de flumine pisces
Eiciant, cantu vox ubi sparsa iuvet.
Hac fallente tamen spe retia mittit in undas,
Et numero pisces uberiore capit.
Expositos quos iam cum lascivire videret,
Cur ait hoc reprobi ludere more iuvat?
Moverit haud inflata suo cum tibia cantu,
Nunc saltare putem pene furoris opus.
Conveniente loco quae non, aut tempore fiunt,
Quae foret bis alias, gratia rebus abest.

 


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.