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48. CANIS ET COCUS. (Perry 254)

RES curante Coco solitas intrasse culinam
Dicitur, et pecudis cor rapuisse Canis.
Quem Cocus hac sero fugientem voce secutus:
Haec impune fugae nunc ope furta facis:
Cautius ut redeas tamen observabere praedo,
Non adimis, sed das crede cor ipse mihi.
Quae nocuere docent, cautosque pericula reddunt,
Et melius flammas ustus ab igne cavet.

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.