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Phryx Aesopus (Osius, 1574)

69. ASINUS ET CORVUS ALITER. (Perry 553)

LAnigerae Cornix Ovis involat improba tergo,
Facta dolens fert haec impatienter Ovis.
Qua dicente Canem, forsan si talia fiant,
Nolle pati, novi quid sequar, inquit avis.
Quos impune mihi vexari, quosque caveri
Conveniat, me non ista latere putes.
Crede mihi non hunc iniuria rara sequetur,
Qui se tutandi viribus orbus erit.

 


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.