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94. DE ASINO INDUTO Leonis pelle. (Perry 358)

PElle Leonina quia se velarat Asellus,
Hac homines pariter fraude feraeque pavent.
Decepti specie credebant esse Leonem,
Digna gravi res haec visa timore fuit.
At produnt Asinum longae spectantibus aures,
Qui stolidè [Reg: stolide] tali more superbus erat.
Agnitus unde graves pistrini ferre labores
Cogitur, hanc poenam facta proterva movent.
Praebeat indignis ut quondam tempus honores
Dedecus his subito, quod fuit ante, redit.
Arroget ut vanam sibi stulta superbia laudem,
Fraude patente tamen laus ea crimen erit.

The same image is used for Fable 254.

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.