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249. DE VULPECULA ET PARDALE. (Perry 12)

PArdalis est quaedam prae se contemnere Vulpem
Ausa, foret maculis picta quod illa cutem.
Cui, decus hoc nobis versuto in pectore, Vulpes,
In cute quod mirum tu tibi dicis, ait.
Nec vero satius paulo est excellere donis
Ingenii, pellem quam variare notis.
Corporis haud desint ut dona iuvantia formam,
Haec tamen ingenii nil sine laude valent.

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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.