Phryx Aesopus (Osius, 1574)
274. DE OVE ET CERVO. (Perry
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FOrte videns quod aperta forent Ovis ostia, caulam [(perhaps: caulas?)]
Linquit, et incautam quo rapit ardor abit:
Hac temere gaudens quae libertate vagandi,
In nemus, haud longe quod fuit inde, venit.
Exsultare videns hoc corrigit obvius oestro
Cervus, et errantem sponte reducit Ouem.
Demonstrasset ubi non hic impune vagari
Posse, quod hic rabidis sint sua lustra feris.
Servitii qui non scit honesti ferre laborem,
Hauserit hunc olim deterioris onus.
Expedit, haud ipsi mores qui rite gubernant,
Servitio domitum pectus habere suum.
*** The drawing does not fit the fable. ***
Compare also the image at Fable 140 (also does not fit). It looks like an illustration for Perry 575.
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. |
