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225. VESPAE ET PERDICES. (Perry 215)

VEspa siti languens ardebat et arida Perdix,
Irrigua potu guttura sicca carent.
Accessere, rigent quo se potante, colonum,
Utraque quem ritu supplicis orat aquam.
Nec modo velle refert se tale rependere factum,
Sed bene servili more merebor, ait.
Me fodiente coli poterit tua vinea Perdix,
Non ait, hanc equidem ferre gravabor opem.
At natura parens cum me mucronibus armet,
Vespa meum fures pellere, dixit, erit.
Esse boves aiunt sibi respondisse colonum,
Qui cum promittant nil, opus illud agant:
His largum potius dare se debere liquorem,
Quo quoties sitiant, guttura sicca rigent.
Sunt, simulent animum qui te sermone iuvandi,
Re tamen, ut credas velle iuvare, nocent.

*** The drawing does not fit the fable. ***
It looks like it should go with Fable 84.


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.