Phryx Aesopus (Osius, 1574)
234. DE LEONE ET TAURIS. (Perry
143)
INvitasse duos ad cenae fercula Tauros
Dicitur insidias fraude tegente Leo.
Hunc sibi fingit Ouem mactatam blandus ad usum,
Utque suam subeant hac facit arte specum.
Incautos se sic invadere posse putabat,
Illorumque; avido carnibus ore frui.
Grandia spe qua tum sibi vasa pararat, et ollas,
Prolixumque, refert longa quod hasta, veru.
Haec animadvertunt, oculis dum singula lustrant,
Et coepêre [Reg: coepere] Boves inde referre pedem.
At monet accedant vanis hos vocibus hospes,
Affore promissas mox ait ille dapes.
Cui Tauri: Non his ovium convivia signis,
Sed funesta Boum carne futura liquet.
Ocius impasto sic antra Leone relinquunt,
Fecerat huc quos spes stulta venire, Boves.
Insidiae quandoque parum prudentibus obsunt,
Quae noceant, cauta mente cavere solent.
*** The drawing does not fit the fable. ***
It could be an illustration for the lion's share, Fable 6.
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. |
