Link to an image of this page [E7v f39v]Temeritas.
Rashness
In praeceps rapitur, frustra quoque tendit habenas
Auriga, effraeni quem vehit oris equus.
Haud facile huic credas, ratio quem nulla gubernat,
Et temere proprio ducitur arbitrio.[1]
A driver pulled by a horse whose mouth does not respond to the bridle is rushed headlong and in vain drags on the reins. You cannot readily trust one whom no reason governs, one who is heedlessly taken where his fancy goes.
1. In general see Plato’s image of the chariot of the soul, Phaedrus, 246, as indicated in the commentary in other editions.
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LUXURE.
Pan piedebouc, couronné de Rocquette,
De grand luxure est symbole, ou marquette.
Rocquette est chaude, & bouc luxurieux,[1]
Et les Satyrs des Nymphes amoureux.[2]
Ceste enseigne de luxure est prinse sur la nature de
l’herbe Rocquette esmouvant ŕ paillardise, &
de la beste boucquine tresluxurieuse, donnant ŕ
entendre, que luxure eschaulfe ardemment: & puys
put villainement.
1. Rocket is described as herba salax at Ovid, Ars amatoria, 4.22. Pliny, Natural History, 10.83.182 and 19.44.154, lists it as an aphrodisiac.
2. Satyrs were creatures half-human, half-goat in form, like Faunus, and Pan with whom Faunus was often identified. See emblems 91 ([A58a091]), and 115 ([A58a115]). Cf. Horace, Odes, 3.18.1: ‘Faunus, you who lust after the fleeing nymphs’.
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