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6.7. De piscatore quodam
(Perry 11)

[See an illustration from a 1501 edition.]

Omnia probe fiunt, que suo tempore fiunt. De hoc audi fabulam. Piscator quidam piscandi inexpertus tibiis ac rethe assumptis iuxta maris littus accedit atque saxo quodam super existens, primis tubicinare cepit, putans cantu se pisces facile esse capturum. Verum cantu cum nullum consequeretur effectum, depositis tibiis rethe in mari dimittit, ac pisces cepit perplures. Sed cum ex rethe pisces extraheret, atque eos saltantes perspiceret, non insulse ait: O improba animalia, dum ad tibiam cecini, saltare noluistis, nunc quia canere cesso saltus datis assiduos! Ergo omnia suo tempore melius fiunt.


Steinhowels Asop, ed. Hermann Osterley (1873). Some of these fables have digitized text; others have only page images. The digital page images are from Google Books. You can also consult the illustrated 1501 edition of Steinhowel's Aesop. Note that Book 7 contains poems from Avianus, so there is no text or page image for the fables in Book 7.