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Aesop’s Fables: The Satyr and the Sword

Detail from Wenceslaus Hollar’s illustration for “The Satyr and the Sword,” from John Ogilby’s Aesopics or a Second Collection of Fables (1668)

I came across this intriguing illustration of a demonlike character holding a sword with what appears to be a small living human head on the hilt. A bit of searc…