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97. CAMELUS. (Perry 117)

COrnibus armari se forte repanda Camelus
A Iove, sed vanis vocibus usa petit.
Namque preces ridens stolidas is truncat et aures,
His quoque deformem partibus esse facit.
Res urgere Deum stultis temeraria votis,
Respuit insulsas ipse iuvare preces.

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.