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238. DE GALLINA ET VULPE. (Perry 7)

ACcedens avium Vulpes astuta cohortem
Non bene Gallinam forte valere videt.
Quae sedet in nido perpessa gravedine morbum,
Ut valeat Vulpes iam quia quaerit, ait:
Sic satis. at melius sum tunc habitura, recedas
Ocius ex isto si procul ipsa loco.
Non inimicorum sunt grata nec esse merentur
Officia, et numquam suspitione carent.

*** The drawing does not fit the fable. ***
This looks like it could be an illustration for Perry 562.

 


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.