Phryx Aesopus (Osius, 1574)
250. DE VULPE ET FELE. (Perry
605)
MUltiplices cum Fele loquens Vulpecula technas
Iactat, et ad vafre quaeque gerenda dolos.
Namque referta mihi est vel pera sagacibus inquit,
Artibus utendi sumque perita meis,
Felis ad haec, non mi nos unam novimus artem
Fidimus huic, hoc res si qua cavenda iubet.
Talia dum mutant inter se verba, tumultu
Huc accurrentum [(perhaps: accurrendum)] perstrepit aura Canum.
Felis in aeriam latratu territa quercum
Subsilit, hac rabidos effugit arte Canes.
At iam cincta Canum laceratur ab agmine Vulpes,
Nullaque nunc ars est qua premat usa necem.
Est ope consilii res tutior unius uti,
Quam te mere quemque fidere mille dolis.
*** The drawing does not fit the fable. ***
It also appears at Fable 199, where it fits.
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. |
