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Phryx Aesopus (Osius, 1574)

248. DE SIMIA ET NUCIBUS. (Perry 0)

AUdierat quidam commendatore Sciuro
Simia iucundas esse Sapore nuces.
Non ulli studio quare spe capta pepercit,
Laeta frui dulci posset ut illa cibo.
Cui iuglans inventa, suos impingere dentes
Ocius huic clausas audet ut edat opes.
Sentit amaritiem rodens tunc illa putamen,
Et nimium duri corticis esse nucem.
Hinc rata deceptam se laudatore Sciuro
Abicit, et non est stulta potita cibo.
Spem de successu ne desere passe laborem,
Quo sine nulla tibi res pretiosa datur.

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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.