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EMBLEMA XVI.
Ex arduis perpetuum nomen.
Lasting renown won through tribulation
Crediderat Platani ramis sua pignora passer
Et benè: ni[1] 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 [=erat]
.[2]
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 lasted through all the years.
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Das XVI.
Auß hohen dingen entsteht ein ewi-
ger Nam.
Auff eim hohen Ahornen Baum
Hett sein Nest gmacht mit allem raum
Ein Vögelein, vermeint darein
Sein jungen solten sicher seyn
Solchs also wer geschehen wo
Der Drach nit hett außgespeht do
Welcher die jungen allzugleich
Sampt der Mutter verschlicket leich
Gantz unbarmhertzig als ein Stein hart
Ein solcher todt sey im gespart
Solches gibt uns diesen bescheidt
Das auß langer Müh und arbeit
Ein ewiger Nam entstandt, wie
Calchas uns thut berichten hie.
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.
2. Corrected from the errata.
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