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Potentissimus affectus Amor.

Love, the all-powerful emotion

VII.

Blindfolded Cupid in a chariot drawn by lions
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Aspice ut invictus vires auriga leonis,
Expressus gemma pusio vincat amor,
Utque manu hac scuticam teneat, hac flectat habenas,
Utque sit in pueri plurimus ore decor.[1]
Dira lues procul esto, feram qui vincere talem,
Est potis, à nobis temperet an ne manus? [2]

Look - here’s Love the lad, carved on a gem. See how he rides triumphant in his chariot and subdues the lion’s might. How in one hand he holds a lash, with the other he guides the reins, and on his countenance rests the loveliness of youth. - Dread pestilence keep far away. Would one who has the power to conquer such a beast keep his hands from us?

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Amour affection trespuissante.

VII.

Pensez a ce petit chartier,
Qui sceit mettre au joug les Lyons,
Nous pourrá il point chastier,
Et ouvrer sur ce qui [=que] voulions?
Noz cueurs dont fault que allieurs plions
Car s’il est puissant pour telles bestes,
Pensez vous que nous en allions,
Sans qu’il nous lie cueurs & testes?

Notes:

1.  In some editions, this sequence of subjunctives is changed to indicative.

2.  This 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.

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Amour trespuissante affection.

Apodeixe.

Cupid driving a chariot drawn by lions.
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Regarde amour enfant, en gemme estant,
Au char tirer fors Lyons soubz mettant,
Tenant la bride en main le fouet au poin,
Comme en l’enfant est grand beauté. Soit loing
Ce mal qui fait tel brut obtemperer,
Ses mains de nous pourroit il temperer?[1]

L’homme doit fuyr amour, par l’exemple des be-
stes qui en deviennent enragées, mesme le Lyon.

Notes:

1.  This 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.

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