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219. APICULA ET IUpiter. (Perry 163)

FOrte suo quod se spoliare labore solerent
Mortales, aegre parca ferebat Apis:
Rite favos ergo constructos arte Tonanti
Obtulit, has querula voce secuta preces:
Qua me munit acu natura, requirimus addas
Huic tu laetiferam vim, reverenter ait:
Non immane ferens votum cui Iuppiter inquit,
Vitalem potius vim tribuisse velim.
Ut simul amisso vitam mucrone relinquas,
Iusta sit haec voti poena ferocis, ait.
Poena Deo veniae largo non ulla probatur,
Quae nimis est irae triste furentis opus.

(The same image can be seen at Fable 180 and Fable 286, where it does not 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.