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Phryx Aesopus (Osius, 1574)

286. DE APICULA ET Ebrioso. (Perry 0)

CErnit Apem, laetis ea dum circumvolat alis,
Ebrius, atque sequi niteris ecquid, ait?
Huic Apis: aerio capiunt me dulcia succo,
Molliter est illis res mihi grata frui.
Huc, ait, accedens ergo nunc largius hauri,
Quod tibi suave dabunt pocula plena merum.
Dona forent illi sed cum contraria Bacchi,
Dulcia quantumvis vina refugit Apis.
Omnibus haud eadem noris iucunda videri,
Parce voluptati deditus esse velis.

*** The drawing does not fit the fable. ***
The same same image appears at Fable 219, 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.