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292. DE VENATORE ET VULPE. (Perry 0)

QUidam indagando fessis cum viribus essent,
Est ea quos toto cura secuta die.
Qui quia venandi frustra trivere laborem,
Impendente domum nocte redire parant.
Quae struit insidias Gallinis callida, Vulpem
Agricolae cernunt protinus ante casam.
Immisere canes illi, votoque potiti,
Non sinit haec vacuos praeda redire domum.
Fortuito bona saepe solent obtingere casu,
Quae tibi non ullo parta labore forent.

*** The drawing does not fit the fable. ***
Although notice the frogs, and compare Fable 22.

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.