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La espada en manos d’el loco.
Ottava rhima.
Despues de buelto
loco Ajax, pensando
Que à los Atridas por su mal juizio [M]
Y a Ulysses junto estava castigando
Entre unos puercos (fuera ya d’el
quiçio
De la cordura y seso) exercitando
Su espada, mata à quien està sin viçio.[1]
Para vengarse el loco no tien’ maña,
Que danasse pensando
que à otro daña.
[Marginalia - link to text]A Agamemnon y à Menelao.
1. See Emblem 38 ([A49a038]) for Ajax’s madness and suicide. In his madness, he slaughtered a herd of sheep, thinking them to be the Greeks. The two largest rams he took to be Agamemnon and Menelaus. See Zenobius, Proverbs, 1.43; Horace, Satires, 2.3.197-8; Erasmus, Adagia, 646 (Aiacis risus) - Erasmus makes the animals pigs, as here.
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- aggressive, unfriendly activities and relationships [95A(AJAX THE GREAT)4] Search | Browse Iconclass
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- farm or solitary house in landscape [25I3] Search | Browse Iconclass
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- pig [47I212(+939):31A236] Search | Browse Iconclass
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- (story of) Agamemnon [95A(AGAMEMNON)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- (story of) Menelaus [95A(MENELAUS)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- (story of) Ulysses [95A(ULYSSES)] Search | Browse Iconclass
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