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Figura d’l Ocno: de los que tienen
las mugeres gastadoras.[1]
Ottava rhima.
Quereys saber la causa y que la escriva
Por que esté el cabestrero
ansi esculpido?
El da à entender un hombre, elqual se abiva
A trabajar con animo invençido:
Mas d’el galardon d’el presto le priva
La asna que le come lo torçido.
Ansi la gastadora muger gasta
Quanto el marido acaudalar no abasta.
1. The painting by Polygnotus depicting this scene is described in Pausanias, Periegesis 29.2. See also Propertius, Elegies 4.3.21; Erasmus, Adagia 383, Contorquet piger funiculum. Ocnus, idleness personified, was a proverbial example of wasted effort.
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