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Contre les Vilains.

Oiseau d’Egipte est Ibis, lequel vuide
Son cul du bec, comme un clystere.[1] Ovide
Et Battiade ont en reproche mis
Ce nom,[2] Ainsi nommans leurs ennemis.

Ibis est un oyseau d’Egipte, qui purge son
ventre du bec, en y mettant eau par le derriere,
& a monstré l’invention du clystere. Par le nom
duquel oiseau sont nomméz les vilains, qui
font de leur bouche cul, en prononceant des-
honnestes parolles.

Notes:

1.  For this information about the ibis, see Aelian, De natura animalium, 2.35; Cicero, De natura deorum, 2.126; Pliny, Natural History, 8.41.97.

2.  Battiades, ‘the inhabitant of Battus’ town’, i.e. the poet Callimachus, a native of Cyrene, a town founded by Battus. Ovid refers to Callimachus’ invective (not now extant) in his own poem Ibis, 53ff.

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    EMBLEMA CXVIII.

    In divites publico malo.

    Those who grow rich out of public misfortune

    Anguillas quisquis captat, si limpida verrat
    Flumina, si illimes ausit adire lacus,
    Cassus erit, ludetque operam: multum excitet ergo
    Si cretae, & vitreas palmula turbet aquas,
    Dives erit: sic iis res publica turbida lucro est,
    Qui pace, arctati legibus, esuriunt.[1]

    If anyone hunting eels sweeps clear rivers or thinks to visit unmuddied lakes, he will be unsuccessful and waste his efforts. If he instead stirs up much clay and with his oar churns the crystal waters, he will be rich. Likewise a state in turmoil becomes a source of profit to people who in peace go hungry, because the law cramps their style.

    Das CXVIII.

    Wider die so reich mit andern scha-
    den werden.

    Ein jeder der Ael fahen wil
    So er die hellen Wasser stil
    Fischt, und so er sich understeht
    Und in die lautern gruben geht
    Der schafft vergebns und sein müh ist
    Umb sonst, so er aber mit list
    Link to an image of this page  Link to an image of this page  [M3r f78r] Das Wasser trüb macht und darinn
    Vil gmür auff rürt, hat er gut gwinn
    Also ist auch die Policei nütz
    Die mit vil auffruhr wirt verstürtzt
    Denen die sonst im fried und ruh
    Darben und haben nicht darzu.

    Notes:

    1.  Cf. Erasmus, Adagia, 2579 (Anguillas captare).

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