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M0057 = Perry289. Source: Camerarius 134. This is Perry 289. The “Paeonian” was Apollo, the Greek god of medicine. The same story is also told about the fox and the frog, #601.
Friday, August 27, 2010
Illustrated: Vulpes et Vermiculus
57. Vulpes et Vermiculus. Emersus de sterquilinio, vermis coepit profiteri apud animantes se esse medicum summum, neque cedere Paeoni, deorum medico, usu et experientia artis. Quem rugis deformem et nutantem intuita, vulpes “Medice,” inquit, “teipsum curare prius atque ita profiteri artem debueras.”
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