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Phryx Aesopus (Osius, 1574)

77. MEDICUS ET AEGROTUS ALITER. (Perry 0)

DUceret urbs cuidam cum funus patria, cives,
Sit quonam morbo mortuus ille, rogant.
His medico dicente, fame periisse, sitique,
Mira quidem cunctis res ea visa fuit.
Tunc, ait, impleri quia nec potuque, ciboque
Hunc solitum medico more professus opem.
Est magis ingluvies vel cunctis noxia morbis,
Illa fame plures strangulat, illa siti.

 

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.