Hieronymus Osius was a German Neo-Latin poet and academic about whom there are few biographical details. He was born about 1530 in Schlotheim and murdered...

story. Caxton titles it "Of the child whiche kepte the sheep" (1484), Hieronymus Osius "The boy who lied" ("De mendace puero", 1574), Francis Barlow "Of the...

prefer the uncertain to the sure (Ne incerta certis anteponantur); Hieronymus Osius, with his comment that the more some folk have, the more they want...

Kawanabe Kyōsai Laurentius Abstemius Roger L'Estrange Gabriele Faerno Hieronymus Osius Marie de France Robert Henryson Jean de La Fontaine Ivan Krylov Nicolas...

Neo-Latin poets used it as a subject, including Gabriele Faerno (1563), Hieronymus Osius (1564) and Candidus Pantaleon (1604). The story has been used to teach...

bird-catcher and relates the story of a farmer, as does the Neo-Latin poet Hieronymus Osius (1564). For William Caxton (1484) he was a labourer and in Samuel Croxall's...

Kawanabe Kyōsai Laurentius Abstemius Roger L'Estrange Gabriele Faerno Hieronymus Osius Marie de France Robert Henryson Jean de La Fontaine Ivan Krylov Nicolas...

poetic versions of the fable in Neo-Latin by Gabriele Faerno and by Hieronymus Osius. The latter concludes with the sentiment that Difference is far from...

donkey (100). In the same year that Faerno was published in Italy, Hieronymus Osius brought out a collection of 294 fables titled Fabulae Aesopi carmine...

like La Fontaine's in the Phryx Aesopus (1564) of the Neo-Latin poet Hieronymus Osius. The story was followed by a second, however, in which the two creatures...

rise out of one's class through marriage. A later verse treatment by Hieronymus Osius is followed by the same moral. In England, both the Francis Barlow...

Fables: A New Translation, 1912. Aesop for Children, 1919 Babrius Hieronymus Osius Fable 53 Jennifer Speake, ed., The Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs, 5th...

the one followed by such Neo-Latin writers as Gabriele Faerno and Hieronymus Osius and in English by Geoffrey Whitney. This alternative fable was given...

the philosopher Socrates. The Neo-Latin poets Gabriele Faerno and Hieronymus Osius both wrote poetic versions, as did Jean de la Fontaine in French. There...

collections of Aesop's fables. Neo-Latin poems based on it were written by Hieronymus Osius and Gabriele Faerno in the 16th century, while in England it was included...

when ill-treated. While Babrius specifically named the god involved, Hieronymus Osius did not when he versified the fable in Latin, while Pantaleon Candidus...

in Renaissance emblem books. It appears as such in a Latin poem by Hieronymus Osius (1564), although the accompanying illustration shows both an ox and...

more of a necessity among family members. When the Neo-Latin poet Hieronymus Osius included the fable in his 1564 collection, he added consideration of...

caused the bird to fly away. In the Renaissance the Neo-Latin poets Hieronymus Osius and Pantaleon Candidus included it in their fable collections. In England...

verse and was followed in Renaissance times by a Neo-Latin poem by Hieronymus Osius. In some sources, the frog sees the ox and tries to equal it in size;...

into Latin of Lucian's epigram. From here the theme was taken up by Hieronymus Osius (1564) and the English emblematist Geoffrey Whitney (1586). The long...

mutans, with the moral that a change of master only brings worse; and Hieronymus Osius as Asinus et olitor (The ass and the gardener, the title by which it...

Les Fables d'Esope Phrygien (1554, see above) and the Latin poems of Hieronymus Osius (1564). Some variations depend on the version of the fable that is...

injuries. Substantially the same story appears in the Neo-Latin poems by Hieronymus Osius and Pantaleon Candidus. However, an alternative version of the story...

Fables d'Esope Phrygien, mises en Ryme Francoise (1542) and in Latin by Hieronymus Osius (1564). In England the fable does not appear in collections before...

Renaissance, the fable was made the subject of two Latin poems by Hieronymus Osius and another by Gabriele Faerno. In the contemporary Fables d’Esope...

Caxton's collection, and was made the subject of a Neo-Latin poem by Hieronymus Osius. In William Somervile's retelling, the moral is lengthened into a panegyric...

began to appear in other European countries during the 17th century. Hieronymus Osius devoted a Neo-Latin poem to it, as did Gabriele Faerno. The latter...

into the eggs and prevents the hoped-for offspring from developing.” Hieronymus Osius also dealt with the subject in Latin verse, drawing the same moral...

while pride is the target of the neo-Latin poem based on the fable by Hieronymus Osius. In La Fontaine's Fables the ant’s provident industry is highlighted...