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67. CANIS IN PRAESEPI. (Perry 702)

ALlatrante Boves Cane, quem praesepe tenebat,
Pellere quos frendens dentibus ille parat.
Ad data cum non hos admittere pabula vellet,
Invidiae tantum cur alis, unus ait?
Cur, quibus ipse frui nequeas, licet improbe velles,
Non sinis impastos nos saturare cibis?
Est haec invidiae natura, nocere laborat,
Utilitas illi nulla sit inde licet.

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.