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273. DE PASSERE ET Apicula. (Perry 0)

QUod tam cognatas, quam nullo sanguine iunctas
Vitet aves, perhibent Passeris esse genus.
Unus ut ex illo se non iactare veretur,
Quod sine pennigero se grege vita iuvet.
Seque ita vivendi felicem praedicat usu,
Non hanc stultitiam passa refutat apis.
Dulcius augusto cum coetu degere vitam,
Et sapienter idem tutius isse docet.
Moribus humanis uti, coetusque tueri
Convenit, hac nati nos quia lege sumus.

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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.