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Souffre, & abstien.
Fortune adverse à l’homme est à porter,
Fortune heureuse est souvent à doubter.
Souffre, & abstien. Maint mal fault soustenir
(Dict Epictete)
& de plus s’abstenir:
Ainsi le Boeuf tant fort souffre l’estache.
Ainsi s’abstient de couvrir pleine vache.
Le Toreau endurant la servitude à l’homme moins
fort que luy, & se abstenant de la vache empreincte,
donne exemple de, Patience, & Abstinence.
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Ex arduis perpetuum nomen.
Lasting renown won through tribulation
Crediderat platani ramis sua pignora passer,
Et bene ni saevo visa dracone forent.
Glutiit hic pullos omnes, miseramque parentem
Saxeus, & tali dignus obire nece.
Haec, nisi mentitur Calchas, monumenta laboris
Sunt longi, cuius fama perennis eat.[1]
A sparrow had entrusted her young to the branches of a plane-tree, and all would have been well, if they had not been observed by a merciless snake. This creature devoured all the chicks and the hapless parent too, a stony-hearted beast, turned to stone as it deserved. Unless Calchas speaks falsely, these are the tokens of long toil, the fame of which will go on through all the years.
1. See Homer, Iliad 2.299ff. for this portent which occurred at Aulis, where the Greek fleet was waiting to sail for Troy. Calchas the seer interpreted the eating of the eight chicks and their mother, followed by the death of the snake, as foretelling the nine-year battle for Troy, followed by success.
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