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Gratiam referendam.
Show gratitude
Aërio insignis pietate Ciconia nido,
Investes pullos pignora grata fovet.
Taliaque expectat sibi munera mutua reddi,
Auxilio hoc quoties mater egebit anus.
Nec pia spem soboles fallit, sed fessa parentum
Corpora fert humeris, praestat & ore cibos.[1]
The stork, famed for its dutiful care, in its airy nest cherishes its featherless chicks, its dear pledges of love. The mother bird expects that the same kind of service will be shown her in return, whenever she needs such help in her old age. Nor does the dutiful brood disappoint this hope, but bears its parents’ weary bodies on its wings and offers food with its beak.
1. See Pliny, Natural History 10.32.63: cranes care for their parents’ old age in their turn. See also Aelian, De natura animalium 3.23.
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- shore-birds and wading-birds: stork (+ very old animal) [25F37(STORK)(+24)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- shore-birds and wading-birds: stork (+ animal with prey) [25F37(STORK)(+452)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- shore-birds and wading-birds: stork (+ postures, positions of animal(s)) [25F37(STORK)(+53)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- worms (+ dying animal; death of animal; dead animal) [25F73(+63)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- groups of trees [25G11] Search | Browse Iconclass
- plants and herbs (+ bare plant) [25G4(+351)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- mountains [25H11] Search | Browse Iconclass
- rock-formations [25H1123] Search | Browse Iconclass
- river [25H213] Search | Browse Iconclass
- city-walls [25I146] Search | Browse Iconclass
- clouds [26A] Search | Browse Iconclass
- giving food [41C111] Search | Browse Iconclass
- road, path [46C11] Search | Browse Iconclass
- pedestal of a piece of sculpture (perhaps in the form of a herm) [48C244] Search | Browse Iconclass
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- parental care [42A461] Search | Browse Iconclass
- 'Pietà de figliuoli verso il padre' (Ripa) [42B40] Search | Browse Iconclass
- rescuing parents (in particular carrying on the back) [42B43] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Gratitude; 'Gratitudine', 'Memoria grata de beneficii ricevuti' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept) [57A8(+4)] Search | Browse Iconclass
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Maturandum.
Making good speed
LII.
Maturare iubent properè & cunctarier omnes,
Ne nimium praeceps, neu mora longa nimis.
Hoc tibi declaret connexum Echeneide[1] telum,
Haec tarda est, volitant spicula missa manu.
Everyone tells us to deal with things quickly, but they also tell us to hold back - not to be impetuous, nor yet to wait too long. A missile linked with a sucking-fish can demonstrate this for you: the fish is slow, but arrows fly fast when they leave the shooter’s hand.
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Eyl mit weyl.
LII.
Ein gmain sprichwort ist, eyl mit weyl,
Gar kunstlich hye gezaiget an,
Der fisch Remora umb ein pfeyl
Gewunden, gibt es zu verstan:
Des fisch natur ist stiller stan,
Der pfeyl ferd schneller dann der wind,
In allen sachen mittel han,
Hayst nit zu spat, und nit zu gschwind.
1. ‘linked with a sucking fish’. The sucking-fish (echeneis or remora) was a creature believed by the ancients to have the power of slowing the course of ships to which it attached itself. See Pliny, Natural History 32.1.2-6. He describes it as about six inches long and like a slug. See also [A42b049].
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- archer's weapons (with NAME) [45C15(ARROW)] Search | Browse Iconclass
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- Maturity (+ emblematical representation of concept) [51FF511(+4)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Swiftness, Speed; 'Agilità ', 'Celerità ', 'Velocità ' (Ripa) (+ symbolical representation of concept) [51M11(+3)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Swiftness, Speed; 'Agilità ', 'Celerità ', 'Velocità ' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept) [51M11(+4):51MM11(+4)] Search | Browse Iconclass
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- Carefulness, Diligence; 'Diligenza' (Ripa) [54A2] Search | Browse Iconclass
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