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Link to an image of this page  Link to an image of this page  [A7r p13]

In victoriam dolo partam.

On victory won by guile.

Virtue sitting crying on the tomb marked D M AIACIS
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Aiacis tumulum lacrymis ego perluo virtus,
Heu misera albentes dilacerata comas.
Scilicet hoc restabat adhuc, ut iudice graeco[1]
Vincerer, & caussa stet potiore dolus.[2]

I, Virtue, bedew with tears the tomb of Ajax, tearing, alas, in my grief my whitening hairs. This was all it needed - that I should be worsted with a Greek as judge, and that guile should appear to have the better cause.

Notes:

1.  The Greek assembly awarded the arms of the dead Achilles to the cunning and eloquent Ulysses, not the brave and straight-forward Ajax. For Ajax’ subsequent suicide, [A34b038].

2.  See Anthologia graeca 7.145.

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Qu’el Amor es affecto potentissimo.

SONETO.

Cupid driving a chariot drawn by lions.
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La fuerça del leon tiene vencida
Amor si no es de amor jamas vencido,
Que à solo amor ser quiso Amor rendido
A quien no ay cosa que no esté rendida.
Link to an image of this page  Link to an image of this page  [B5v p26] La rienda tiene en la siniestra assida,
Y el latigo en la diestra està esculpido,
Con este, el apetito es compelido,
Y la razon de aquella està opprimida.
Quien ternà el coraçon a’l sentimiento
Tan echo que no tema aqueste fuego
En ver dar á un leon tan gran tormento?
Dichoso aquel que á tal mal hallò luego
Remedio para echar d’l pensamiento
La pęna de tan gran desasosiego.[1]

Notes:

1.  The original Latin emblem is a translation of Anthologia graeca 9.221, an epigram about a seal carved with a representation of Eros driving a chariot drawn by lions. The theme is further developed here.

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