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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 lachrymis 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.

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Victoire acquise par fraude.

Vertu suis sur ce tumbeau paincte,
Rompant mes cheveulx & visaige:
Qui faiz pour Ajax ma complainte,
Quon priva de son droit usage:
Car Ulysses par beau langaige,
Eust les armures Dachilles:
Ainsi beau parler faict dommaige,
Et a maintz droictz anichilez.

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, [A39a038].

2.  See Anthologia graeca 7.145.

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Prudentes.

The Wise.

EMBLEMA XVIII.

The two-headed image of Janus in the sky above a town and countryside
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Iane bifrons, qui iam transacta futuraque calles,
Quique retro sannas, sicut & antè, vides:[1]
Tot te cur oculis, tot fingunt vultibus? an quòd
Circumspectum hominem forma fuisse docet?

Two-headed Janus, you know about what has already happened and what is yet to come, you see the jeering faces behind just as you see them in front. Why do they represent you with so many eyes, why with so many faces? Is it because this form tells us that you were a man of circumspection?

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1.  quique retro sannas, sicut et ante, vides, ‘you see the jeering faces behind just as you see them in front’, a line based on Persius, Satirae, 1.58-62.

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