The fable of the Fox and the Grapes is admirably represented in Freitag’s Mythologia Ethica (p. 127), to the motto, “Feigned is the refusal of that which cannot be had,”—
Ficta eius quod haberi nequit
recuſatio.
Freitag, 1579.
Fatuus ſtatim indicat iram ſuam: qui autem diſſimulat iniuriam, callidus eſt.
Prouerb. 12, 16.
“A fool’s wrath is presently known: but a prudent man covereth shame.”
The fable itself belongs to an earlier work by Gabriel Faerni, and there exemplifies the thought, “to glut oneself with one’s own folly,”—