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Phryx Aesopus (Osius, 1574)

5. DE CANE ET FRUSTO CARNIS. (Perry 133)

ORE ferens carnem surreptam tranat ut undas,
Elabi cupiens hac ratione Canis:
Apparens sub aquis hunc frusti fallit imago,
Spes aliam carnem fingit avara dari.
Hinc avide captans vanam male providus umbram,
Quem vehit, e rictu perdit hiante cibum.
Temperat a studio sibi dum non caecus habendi,
Quas habet, has etiam perdit avarus opes.
Sunt, qui possideant cum plurima, plura requirunt,
His explere famem copia nulla potest.

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.