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76. MEDICUS ET AEGROTUS. (Perry 114)

IN ritu cives curandi funeris ibant,
Atque una medicae forte professor opis:
Usus erat frustra cuius tamen arte medendi
Mortuus, hic aliis plurima verba facit.
Abstinuisset, ait, vini si cautus ab usu,
Alvus et huic modico more soluta foret:
Huic servata salus morbo cessante fuisset,
Illaque non dubiam cura tulisset opem.
Unus ibi comitum, nunc cum sit adempta facultas
Sanandi, temere verba quid ista facis?
Cur dici misero cum proderat illa tacebas,
Ars tua defuncto proderit illa nihil.
Dum licet, infirmis felix succurre Machaon,
Quid medicam tentas, cum iacet aeger, opem?
Qui monet hoc sero, quod oportuit ante moneri,
Nil agit, incassum verba monentis habet.

*** The drawing does not fit the fable. ***
It looks like an illustration for Perry 514.


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.