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243. RANAE ET LUPI, PISCES. (Perry 0)

IN ripam egressas limoso e flumine Ranas
In viridi pastas gramine fama refert.
Hanc quia praetereunt homines, qui nescio, ripam,
Desilit in solitas turba palustris aquas.
Quam fecere Lupi praedam sub gurgite pisces,
Orsa queri tum sic serius una fuit:
O stultas nos, pane cibo quos novimus uti,
Nil homines adeo cur fugeremus erat:
Incidimus quae nunc hos imprudenter in hostes,
Nos avido quorum quaerimur ore cibus.
Sunt mala qui remere fugiendo parun laborent,
Dumque cavere parant, in graviora ruunt.

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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.