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Ex damno alterius, alterius utilitas.
One man’s loss is another man’s gain
EMBLEMA CXXVI.
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Dum saevis ruerent in mutua vulnera telis,
Ungue leaena ferox, dente timendus aper;
Accurrit vultur spectatum, & prandia captat.
Gloria victoris, praeda futura sua est.[1]
While a lioness, vicious in claw, and a boar, fearsome for its tusks, were setting upon each other, inflicting mutual wounds with their savage weapons, a vulture hurried up to watch, lurking in expectation of a meal. The victor’s glory will belong to the one that gets the spoil.
1. Cf. Aesop 200 and 203.
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Les sages.
PROBLEME.
Jan a deux chefz, temps passé, & suyvant
Voyant derriere, ainsi comme devant.
Pourquoy has tu quatre yeulx, double visage?
Est ce pourtant que tu fuz homme sage?
La Sapience est au chef, & Pource l’homme a deux
testes, represente le sage: qui ha memoire du passé, &
providence de l’advenir.
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