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Parvam culinam, duobus
ganeonibus non
sufficere.
A small kitchen will not satisfy two gluttons
In modicis nihil est quod quis lucretur: & unum
Arbustum geminos non alit Erythacos.[1]
aliud.
In tenui spes nulla lucri est: unoque residunt
Arbusto geminae non bene Ficedulae.
No one can make anything out of small resources. One clump of trees does not feed two robins.
Another
There is no hope of gain where means are small. Two flycatchers (lit. fig-peckers) don’t lodge well in one clump of trees.
1. ‘One clump of trees does not feed two robins’. For this proverb, see Apostolius, Proverbs 11.68, where it is said to refer to ‘those who try to turn something small into a source of profit’.
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- birds (+ audible means of communication of animal(s): roaring, crying, singing, barking, mewing, neighing, chirping, etc.) [25F3(+49)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- birds (+ fighting animals; aggressive relations) [25F3(+51)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- birds (+ falling animal(s)) [25F3(+5231)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- birds (+ animal with head bent forward; bowing animal) [25F3(+544)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- groups of birds (+ flying animal(s)) [25F31(+5262)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- song-birds (with NAME) [25F32(FIG-PICKER)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- song-birds: robin (+ animal(s) attacking) [25F32(ROBIN)(+512)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- song-birds: robin (+ relationship between animals) [25F32(ROBIN)(+512)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- groups of trees [25G11] Search | Browse Iconclass
- groups of plants (herbs) [25G13] Search | Browse Iconclass
- trees (+ stem, trunk) [25G3(+21)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- farm or solitary house in landscape [25I3] Search | Browse Iconclass
- rural housing, e.g. country-house, villa, cottage [41A16] Search | Browse Iconclass
- birds (+ relationship between animals) [5F3(+44)] Search | Browse Iconclass
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- Gluttony, Intemperance, 'Gula'; 'Gola', 'Ingordigia', 'Ingordigia overo Avidità', 'Voracità' (Ripa) ~ personification of one of the Seven Deadly Sins [11N35] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Competition, Rivalry, Emulation; 'Emulatione' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept) [54EE33(+4)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Scarcity; 'Carestia' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept) [55BB2(+4)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Selfishness; 'Interesse', 'Interesse proprio' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept) [57AA65(+4)] Search | Browse Iconclass
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In parasitos.
Professional spongers
Quos tibi donamus, fluviales accipe cancros,
Munera conveniunt moribus ista tuis.
His oculi vigiles, & forfice plurimus ordo
Chelarum armatus, maximaque alvus adest.
Sic tibi propensus stat pingui abdomine venter,
Pernicesque pedes, spiculaque apta pedi.
Cùm vagus in triviis, mensaeque sedilibus erras,
Inque alios mordax scommata salsa iacis.[1]
Receive these river crabs which we present to you. These gifts match your character. They have watchful eyes, and a great row of claws armed with a pincer, and a huge gut is there. You too have a protruding belly with fat paunch, scuttling feet and sharp weapons on them, as you hang about the crossroads or move among the seats at table, and maliciously shoot your stinging, witty jibes.
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Contre les escornifleurs ou postulans
de repeues franches, quon dit
plaisans de table.
Des escrevisses je tenvoye,
Don propre aux facons & meurs que as:
yeulx tousjours ouvers par la voye,
Et grand ventre, ou tout revocas:
Puis ce que chascun tu mocquas,
Es lieux ou faiz de fol loffice:
Sont les piedz pinsantz sur maintz cas,
Ainsi vis tu en escrevisse.
1. Variant reading, scommata falsa, ‘libellous witticisms’
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