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84. VULTUR. (Perry 577)

NAtali parat ecce die convivia Vultur,
Invitans alias insidiator aves.
Tempore quae cum iam, quo iusserat ille, venirent,
Ianua tunc huic est clausa repente domus.
Sic omnes laniare ferox et carpere praedo
Sustinet, atque harum pascere carne gulam.
Est sua deliciis cui magna vacare voluptas,
Saepe perire mali vis inopina facit.

No illustration provided, but the image from Fable 14 (repeated at Fable 225) seems like it would fit this fable:

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.