Phryx Aesopus (Osius, 1574)
93. SOL ET AQUILO. (Perry 46)
SOL et trux Aquilo rapido de robore certant,
Magnifice vires iactat uterque suas.
Inter se pacti, ferat ut victoris honorem,
Mox orbatus utri veste viator erit.
Tum procul arguto stridentem flamine ventum
Sortitum primas fama fuisse vices.
Inque viatorem, quem protinus ire videbat,
Vim valide flatus exseruisse sui.
At quo ventus atrox violentius urget euntem,
Continet hoc vestes arctius ille suas.
Incipiente suos sed Sole ciere calores,
Ferre viatorem non potuisse ferunt.
Impatiens aestus rapidi se veste recingit,
Palliolum ponens non modo carpit iter:
Sed tunicam pariter cogente refibulat aestu,
Sic sibi feruorem leniat aura facit.
Ingenio quondam vel maxima robora cedunt,
Consilio quamvis viceris usus opem.
(No illustration provided.)
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. |
