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252. DE ASINO ET VIATORIBUS. (Perry 0)

IRe Viatores dum per deserta laborant,
Hic Asinum nacti forte fuere duo.
Quo coepere feris viso contendere verbis,
Cedat utri, possunt hi dubitare, pecus.
Quod pariter fortuna favens videatur utrique
Obiecisse, diu lis ea fine caret.
Qua durante fugax sese subduxit Asellus,
Quo venit elapso serus utrique dolor.
Saepe bonis qui non norunt praesentibus uti,
Hos fructu sequitur destituente pudor.

*** The drawing does not fit the fable. ***
It looks like an illustration of Perry 640.

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.