Click here for a SLIDESHOW of all the Barlow images. Look closely and you can see the calf being sacrificed there in the background.
M0278 = Perry300. Source: Barlow’s Aesop 52. This is Perry 300. Compare the foolish pig and his fate, #338.
Friday, September 10, 2010
Illustrated: Bos Laborans et Vitula
278. Bos Laborans et Vitula. Mollis et lasciva vitula, cum bovem agricolae aculeo agitatum et arantem cerneret, contempsit. Sed, cum immolationis dies affuit, bos a iugo liberatus per pascua vagabatur; vitula vero, ut immolaretur, retenta est. Quod cum bos conspicatur, subridens ait, “Heus vitula, ideo non laborabas: ut immolareris!” Qui alteri irridet, sibi ipsi caveat: qui labori suo sedulo incumbit securus est; otioso et nihil agenti pericula semper imminent.
Click here for a SLIDESHOW of all the Barlow images. Look closely and you can see the calf being sacrificed there in the background.
Click here for a SLIDESHOW of all the Barlow images. Look closely and you can see the calf being sacrificed there in the background.
