Phryx Aesopus (Osius, 1574)
56. AUCEPS ET ANGUIS. (Perry 115)
CUM visco calamisque suis quidam exiit Auceps
In nemus, incautas fallere doctus aves.
Aeria qui forte notans super arbore turdum,
Aucupii solito more parabat opus.
Sed dum construeret calamos, viscumque tenacem
Allineret propere, dumque notaret avem.
Calce premens Anguem, qui forte latebat in herbis,
Exitium diro vulnere triste tulit.
Qui moriens, alii fraudem dum molior, inquit,
Flebilis incautum causa perire facit.
Insidiis alios qui non vexare verentur,
Hi sibi plus aliis saepe nocere solent.
Esse mali quem non auctorem depudet olim
Consilii, fraus huic propria saepe nocet.
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. |
