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Abies.
The fir tree
XXXIIII.
Apta fretis abies in montibus editur altis:
Est & in adversis maxima commoditas.[1]
The fir tree that is fit to sail the sea grows high up on the hills. Even in hard circumstances, there is great advantage to be found.
1. This is because it grows strong by withstanding the gales and harsh weather. Contrast Anthologia Graeca, 9.30ff, 105, and the much-translated 376 for an opposing view of the fir tree: “how can the fir, storm-tossed while growing on land, resist the gales at sea?” 9.31 was translated by Alciato (Selecta epigrammata, p. 98).
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EMBLEMA CCXIIII [=209] .
Picea.
The spruce tree
At Picea emittat nullos quòd stirpe stolones,
Illius est index, qui sine prole perit.
But the spruce, because it sends up no shoots from its stock, is a symbol of the man who dies without progeny.
Das CCXIIII [=209] .
Füchtenbaum.
Aber dieweil kein neben Gschoß
Der Füchtenbaum beyseits außstoß
Ist er ein anzeig und gefert
Diß, der on Leibserben hinfehrt.
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