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In receptatores sicariorum.[1]

Those who harbour cut-throats

XCIIII.

Deer with a man's face being attacked by dogs
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Latronum furumque manus tibi Scaeva[2] per urbem
It comes, & diris cincta cohors gladiis.
Atque ita te mentis generosum prodige censes,
Quòd tua complureis allicit olla malos.
En novus Actaeon, qui postquàm cornua sumpsit,
In praedam canibus se dedit ipse suis.[3]

An evil-minded band of ruffians and thieves accompanies you about the city, a gang of supporters armed with lethal swords. And so, you wastrel, you consider yourself a fine lordly fellow because your cooking pot draws in crowds of scoundrels. - Here’s a fresh Actaeon - he, after he grew his horns, became the prey of his own hunting dogs.

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Wider auffenthalter der todschleger.

XCIIII.

Trotzlich gewaffend dich belaydt
Moerder und dieb ein grosse rot,
Das achst du dich stoltz und gemayd,
Das du soelch nerst von deinem brot:
Sich fal nit in Actaeons not,
Den in eins hyrschen gstalt verkert
Sein aygen hunnd bissen zu tod,
Wer schelmen nert, ist unglucks werd.

Notes:

1.  Before the 1536 edition, Wechel editions used an earlier version of the woodcut in which the horns were more like a goat than a deer’s antlers.

2.  Scaeva, ‘evil-minded’. The capital letter suggests that the Latin word could be taken as a proper name in the vocative case, i.e addressing one Scaeva.

3.  For the story of Actaeon turned into a stag and killed by his own hounds, see Ovid, Metamorphoses 3.138ff. Similarly, the hangers-on will destroy the one who has fed them.

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In divites publico malo.

Those who grow rich out of public misfortune

EMBLEMA LXXXVIII.

Two men fishing for eels in a lake
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Anguillas quisquis captat, si limpida verrat
Flumina, si illimes ausit adire lacus,
Cassus erit, ludetque operam: multum excitet ergo
Si cretae, & vitreas palmula turbet aquas;
Dives erit: Sic iis res publica turbida lucro est,
Qui pace, arctati legibus, esuriunt.[1]

If anyone hunting eels sweeps clear rivers or thinks to visit unmuddied lakes, he will be unsuccessful and waste his efforts. If he instead stirs up much clay and with his oar churns the crystal waters, he will be rich. Likewise a state in turmoil becomes a source of profit to people who in peace go hungry, because the law cramps their style.

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1.  Cf. Erasmus, Adagia, 2579 (Anguillas captare).

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