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Link to an image of this page  Link to an image of this page  [M2v p180]

Qui alta contemplantur cadere.

Those who contemplate the heights come to grief

LXXXIII.

Huntsman shooting an arrow at a crane but being bitten by a snake at the same time.
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Dum turdos visco, pedica dum fallit alaudas,
Et iacta altivolam figit harundo gruem,
Dipsada non prudens auceps pede perculit: ultrix
Illa mali, emissum virus ab ore iacit.
Sic obit, extento qui sydera respicit arcu,
Securus fati quod iacet ante pedes.[1]

While he tricks thrushes with bird-lime, larks with snares, while his speeding shaft pierces the high-flying crane, the careless bird-hunter steps on a snake; avenging the injury, it spits the darting venom from its jaws. So he dies, a man who gazes at the stars with bow at the ready, oblivious of the mishap lying before his feet.

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Qui hault regarde, peult tumber.

LXXXIII.

L’oiseleur aux latz travaillant,
Au gluz, & l’arc, pour oyseaux prendre
Estoit contre le ciel veillant:
Si marcha sur le serpent tendre:
Lors tost morsure luy sceut rendre.
Ainsi l’arc en hault bandé meurt.
Et tel veult haulx cas entreprendre,
Qui devant soy, a l’extreme heurt.

Notes:

1.  See Anthologia graeca 7.172 and Aesop, Fables 137.

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