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224. TALPA. (Perry 214)

ESse sua captam natura lumine narrant,
Quae murem specie Talpa referre solet.
Illa morum video visu licet orba parenti,
Atque subit nares Thureus, inquit, odor.
Et sonus arguti nobis venti aeris ad aures,
Cui fuit hac iterum voce locuta parens:
Ut visu miseram sic haec non auribus uti
Posse nec olfactu te tua verba probant.
Audent dum tumidi sese iactare Thrasones,
Confundi merito saepe pudore solent.

*** The drawing does not fit the fable. ***

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.