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49. CANIS ET OVIS. (Perry 478)

TRES debere sibi modios Canis ore protervo
Frumenti longo tempore fingit Ovem.
Cumque Lupo Accipiter testes, et Milvius adsunt,
Se debere metu victa fatetur Ovis.
Fecerat hoc mendax planum testantibus illis,
Rem licet hanc falso fingeret ore Canis.
Ante suas ergo tonsurae tempora lanas
Vendit, ut hac pretium conditione paret.
Quo frumenta dari quamvis indebita possint,
(Sic quia poscenti pacta fuisset) Ovi.
Qui malus est, praebet cui magna potentia vires,
Hoc insons etiam saepe premente dolet.

This image actually appears with Fable 39 and Fable 154, but does not fit them.

(This image actually appears with Fable 61.)

*** The drawing does not fit the fable. ***
It looks like it could be an illustration of Perry 506.

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.