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57. TUBICEN. (Perry 370)

SAEVA suo Tubicen irritans proelia cantu
Captus ab hoste, mihi parce misertus, ait.
Me quoniam cecidit nemo caedente tuorum,
Cui non arma, nisi dixeris esse tubam.
At magis hoc est te perimendi iusta cupido,
Esse rudem belli quod liquet, hostis ait.
Et tamen ad pugnas aliorum pectora cantu
Exstimulas, dignum res ea morte probat.
Qui, male quo faciant, audent urgere potentes,
Quam noceant illi plus nocuisse liquet.

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.