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Le glaive d’un furieux.
XXIII.
Ajax estant
parmi son troupeau porte soye,
Estime, en les tuant, tuer Grecs par la voye:[1]
Ainsi les porcs souffroyent, comme
hostie empruntee,
Au lieu d’Ulysse, & des principaux de
l’armee.
La fureur l’empeschoit de nuire à ses haineux,
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Si qu’il tue & abbat ses porceaux au lieu d’eux.
Commentaires.
Advisons sur tout, que la cholere ne nous emporte,
& ne nous laissons point surmonter à icelle: car en
fin la cholere devient fureur & rage, laquelle ayant
pris place en nos coeurs, en chasse la raison, qui apres,
à grand’ peine y peut jamais rentrer. Ajax ayant
esté meschamment & à tort
condamné au plaidé des
armes d’Achilles, estant enflammé de rage, tue ses
propres porceaux, pensant tuer Agamemnon, Ulysse,
& les autres Grecs.
1. See [FALd038] for Ajax’ 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, which Alciato here follows.
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