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Phryx Aesopus (Osius, 1574)

23. LEPORES ET RANAE ALITER. (Perry 138)

CUM pavidi silvis Lepores stridentibus essent,
Praecipiti cursu deseruere locum.
Desiluere metu sed Ranae cuius in undas,
Dicitur alta palus esse morata sugam.
Tunc, ita si celeres sumus, aevo grandior inquit,
Murmura cur silvae non timuisse pudet?
Saepe cient animo subeunda pericula vires,
Et mala, quid valeat quemque ferenda docent.

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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.