Phryx Aesopus (Osius, 1574)
218. HINNULUS. (Perry
351)
HInnuleum Cervo perhibent dixisse, roganti
Hoc dignare mihi dicere care pater:
Cum minus esse canes te grandi corpore noris,
Et celeri praestes vique, fugaque pedum:
Cornuaque alta tuam vitam sint arma tuendi,
His arcere tibi vim procul use potes:
Qui fit, ut ipse canum soleas latratibus angi,
Illorumque fugax usque pavere metu?
Cui pater arridens, de me quae Nate recenses,
Re testante licet sint ita, Cervus ait:
Nescio qua ratione tamen, simul attigit aures
Vox audita Canum, me timor inde fugat.
Natur a timidos ut confirmare labores,
Haec tua profectu verba carentis habes.
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. |
