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Remedia in arduo, mala in
prono esse.

Remedies are hard, damage is easy

XCII.

Three old women with staffs following after a winged figure with bird claws for feet
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Aetheriis postquàm deiecit sedibus Aten
Iuppiter,[1] heu vexat quàm mala noxa viros.
Evolat haec pedibus celer & pernicibus alis,
Intactumque nihil casibus esse sinit.
Ergo Litae proles Iovis hanc comitantur euntem,[2]
Sarturae quicquid fecerit illa mali.
Sed quia segnipedes, strabae[3], lassaeque senectâ,
Nil nisi pòst longo tempore restituunt.

Once Jupiter had cast Ate down from the heavenly abode, what an evil bane thereafter assailed poor man! Ate flies out fleet of foot with fast-beating wing and leaves nothing untouched by mishap. So Jove’s daughters, the Litae, accompany her as she goes, to mend whatever ill she has brought about. But they are slow-footed, poor of sight and weary with age, and so they restore nothing until later, after long passage of time.

Link to an image of this page  Link to an image of this page  [N4r p199]

Maulx viennent promptement,
et biens a difficulté.

XCII.

Attey de Juppiter chassée
Pour nuyre, vola sur la terre.
Et n’y fait pas une passée,
Sans rendre feu, fain, peste, ou guerre.
Lites apres vont, non grand erre,
Car vieilles sont, & mal trotans:
Dont l’on ne peult leur bien acquerre,
Fors apres longue espace, & temps.

Notes:

1.  ‘Jupiter had cast Ate down’. See Homer, Iliad 19. 125ff.

2.  ‘the Litae accompany her’. See Homer, Iliad 9.502ff. Ate means ‘Mischief’, Litae, ‘Prayers’. Ate was cast out of Olympus to bring harm to mankind, a personification of humans being led astray. The Litae were a personification of prayers offered in repentance.

3.  Textual variant: luscae.

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Remedia in arduo, mala in prono esse.

Remedies are hard, damage is easy

Emblema cxxx.

Three figures following a figure of a flying woman with claws instead of feet.
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Aetheriis postquàm deiecit sedibus Aten
Iuppiter:[1] heu, vexat quàm mala noxa viros!
Evolat haec pedibus celer & pernicibus alis,
Intactúmque nihil casibus esse sinit.
Ergo Litae, proles Iovis, hanc comitantur euntem,[2]
Sarturae quidquid fecerit illa mali.
Sed quia segnipedes, luscae, lassaeque senecta,
Nil nisi pòst longo tempore restituunt.

Once Jupiter had cast Ate down from the heavenly abode, what an evil bane thereafter assailed poor man! Ate flies out fleet of foot with fast-beating wing and leaves nothing untouched by mishap. So Jove’s daughters, the Litae, accompany her as she goes, to mend whatever ill she has brought about. But they are slow-footed, poor of sight and weary with age, and so they restore nothing until later, after long passage of time.

Link to an image of this page  Link to an image of this page  [S1r f181r]

HOmerico hoc figmento significatur quàm cele-
ri momento res adversae nos impetant. quám-
que sera iisdem medicina adhibeatur. Quod no-
strates accommodata paraemia efferunt, cùm dicti-
tant, mala in equis advenire, id est citissimò nos
adgredi: pedibus verò recedere, hoc est tardè sen-
símque abire. Fabula est apud Homerum Iliadis ι

Link to an image of this page  Link to an image of this page  [S1v f181v]

Remedes sont difficiles à rencontrer:
mais les maux ne se presentent
que trop.

APres que Jupiter eut dechassee Até
Du celeste manoir, ell’ a par tout gasté,
Et comblé de malheurs les affaires humaines:
Elle va vistement de ses aisles soudaines,
Elle volle, elle passe, & met par tout malheur:
Brief, rien elle ne laisse où n’y ait de la peur.
Donques les Lites soeurs, & de Jupiter filles,
La suivent puis-apres: mais elles peu habilles
Ne la peuvent si tost r’attaindre, & secourir
Aux maux qu’a faits Até, & playes à mourir:
Car lousches qu’elles sont, cassees de vieil aage,
Ne peuvent, que bien tard, reparer ce ravage.

PAr ceste fiction d’Homere, est montré
combien soudainement les malheurs
nous assaillent, & que bien tard on y reme-
die. C’est un proverbe ordinaire à ceux de
nostre nation, quand ils disent que les maux
viennent à cheval, & s’en retournent à pied
tout bellement: c’est a dire, qu’ils viennent
bient [=bien] tost & brusquement nous assaillir, &
ne s’en allent que tardivement & à longue
traitte de temps. Ceste fable est en Homere,
au neufieme de l’Iliade.

Notes:

1.  ‘Jupiter had cast Ate down’. See Homer, Iliad 19. 125ff.

2.  ‘the Litae accompany her’. See Homer, Iliad 9.502ff. Ate means ‘Mischief’, Litae, ‘Prayers’. Ate was cast out of Olympus to bring harm to mankind, a personification of humans being led astray. The Litae were a personification of prayers offered in repentance.

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