in cavea, ante fenestram suspensa.
Ad eam advolans,
vespertilio rogat,
"Cur non potius cantas interdiu?
Noctu acquiscere debes."
Merula respondet,
"Noctu canto,
quia, cantans interdiu,
prodita et capta sum.
Itaque nunc, malo meo edocta,
noctu canto, et interdiu taceo."
Tum vespertilio dicit,
"Sed tu enim sero caves:
te tacere oportuit
priusquam te apprehenderent."
This story is based on 401. Vespertilio et Merula.
Click here for a SLIDESHOW of all the Medici Aesop images. On the left you see the first part of the story, where the bird is caught; then on the right, you can see the bat and the bird.
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