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72. ARBOR ET TRANSLATICIA. (Perry 0)

UT, cui magna suos erat hortos cura colendi,
Villicus urbano gratificetur hero:
Suavia mala bonae inprimis huic arboris affert,
Haec adeo dulci grata sapore iuvant:
Arbor heri iussu sit ut haec translata sub urbem,
At non consilii profuit huius opus:
Sive vetustatem patiens exaruit arbor,
Sive alia mox est peste coacta mori.
Tunc dominum dixisse, palam esse, annosa quod aetas
Transferri stirpem non pateretur humo.
Qui nimium gaudent sapiendo, turpiter errant,
Qui quondam sapiat parcius, ille sapit.

*** The drawing does not fit the fable. ***

This drawing would go better with Fable 74.

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.