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Amygdalus.
The almond
Cur properans foliis praemittis amygdale flores?
Odi pupillos praecocis ingenii.[1]
Almond tree, why are you in such a hurry to put out flowers before your leaves? I hate precocious pupils.
1. See Quintilian (Fabius Quintilianus), Institutio oratoria, 1.3.3: “the precocious type of intellect never easily comes to fruition”.
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MORO.
Mulberry.
Il tardo Moro mai non getta foglia
Finche’l
freddo non è
mancato e spento:
E pur avanti che ignorantia toglia
E chi ad haver di savio
il grido intento,
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