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229. DE LEONE ET ADOLESCENTE, ALITER. (Perry 363)

SOmniat in festo morsu saevire Leonem,
Seque peti quidam, diraque fata pati.
Est huic effigies diducto saxea rictu
Visa, Leo specie quae truculentus erat.
Immisisse manum ioculari dicitur auso
Est tamen audacem poena secuta iocum.
Ictus ab angue, cava furtim qui fauce latebat,
Comprobat exitio somnia visa suo.
Quod fatale, malum frustra vitare laboras,
Eveniunt, quae vult ipse futura Deus.
Non terrere tamen nimium nos somnia debent,
Nec decet haec omni vana putare modo.

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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.