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Phryx Aesopus (Osius, 1574)

42. SIMIUS ET VULPES. (Perry 533)

O mea da nobis Vulpecula, Simius inquit,
Particulam caudae, cui grave pendet onus.
Fac vestire sinas tali velamine nates,
Hoc, ait, accepto munere gratus ero.
Illa refert: tantam si caudam nacta fuissem,
Esset ut hanc plaustro pone necesse vehi:
Non uno tamen inde pilo vestitior ires,
Natibus incedas nudus ut usque tuis.
Grandis opum quamvis non copia desit avaris,
Inde tamen miseris ferre gravantur opem.

*** The drawing for Fable 124 fits this fable. ***

*** The drawing does not fit the fable. ***
This looks like an illustration for Perry 474.

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.