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Amicitia etiam post mortem
durans.[1]
Friendship lasting even beyond death
XII.
Arentem senio, nudam quoque frondibus ulmum.
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Complexa est viridi vitis opaca coma:[2]
Agnoscitque vices naturae, & grata parenti
Officii reddit mutua iura suo.
Exemploque monet, tales nos quaerere amicos,
Quos neque disiungat foedere summa dies.
A vine shady with green foliage embraced an elm tree that was dried up with age and bare of leaves. The vine recognises the changes wrought by nature and, ever grateful, renders to the one that reared it the duty it owes in return. By the example it offers, the vine tells us to seek friends of such a sort that not even our final day will uncouple them from the bond of friendship.
COMMENTARIA.
Vitis luxuriens frondibus & pampinis suis
circundedit & ornavit ulmum arborem prae
senio iam penitus putridam & arefactam, pri-
stinam adhuc naturam agnoscens, quamque
olim saepius succrescendo sustentaculi paren-
tisque loco habuerat eam nec iam quidem, licet
aridam & siccam deserit spernitve: verům
adhuc etiam exornat: in hunc ferč modum
apud Ovidium lib. 2. de tristibus
Vidi ego pampineis ornatam vitibus ulmum,
Quae fuerat saevo fulmine tacta Iovis.
Tales nobis Amicos querere decet, qui extre-
mo in periculo vel etiam post mortem veri
Amici permaneant, sincerae nanque fidei. A-
mici precipuč in adversis rebus cognoscun-
tur inquit Valerius Maximus in praefatione sua tituli
7. de Amicitia. lib. 4.
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Virtuti fortuna comes.
Good fortune attendant on virtue
EMBLEMA CXVIII.
Anguibus implicitis, geminis caduceus[1] alis
Inter Amaltheae cornua[2] rectus adest.
Pollentes sic mente viros, fandique peritos
Indicat, ut rerum copia multa beet.
The caduceus, with entwined snakes and twin wings, stands upright between the horns of Amalthea. It thus indicates how material wealth blesses men of powerful intellect, skilled in speaking.
1. This was the herald’s staff, attribute of Mercury, god of eloquence, intellectual pursuits and financial success. The entwined serpents are a symbol of peace. See Pliny Natural History 29.12.54. The caduceus was Alciato’s personal device and was carved on his tomb at Pavia.
2. Amalthea was the she-goat that suckled the infant Jupiter. Her horn became the cornucopia, the horn of plenty. See Erasmus, Adagia 502, Copiae cornu.
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