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233. FABER ET CANIS. (Perry 415)

CUm Canis esset, ali gaudens hoc hospite, Fabro,
Hunc sudante frequens somnus habebat hero,
At capiente cibos extendens ocius artus,
Ad mensae solitas ille redibat opes.
Hoc Faber assiduo fieri cum more videret,
Non ego ferre velim longius illud, ait.
Nempe fatigato me sic ut tute quiescas,
Utque mihi partis usque fruare cibis.
Non bene conveniunt, qui torpet et otia vitat,
Dum vult alterius munere deses ali.

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.