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EMBLEMA CXXVI.

Parem delinquentis & suasoris cul-
pam esse.

The one who urges wrongdoing is as guilty as the one who does the wrong

Praeconem lituo perflantem classica victrix
Captivum in tetro carcere turma tenet.
Queis ille excusat, quòd nec sit strenuus armis,
Ullius aut saevo laeserit ense latus.
Hinc illi, Quin ipse magis timidissime peccas,
Qui clangore alios aeris in arma cies.[1]

The victorious troop holds captive in a foul dungeon a herald, who sounds military commands on his trumpet. To them he makes his excuses - he is no strong fighting man and has wounded no one’s side with a cruel sword. They reply: You abject coward, you are in fact more guilty, for you with the sound of your trumpet stir up others to fight.

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Das CXXVI.

Es ist der Häler wie der Stäler.[2]

Two men arresting another man holding a trumpet, outside a castle.
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Dem sigenden hauffen in dhand
Kam und ward geworffen in die Band
Der Trommeter so in dem Feld
Sein Trommen und Posaun erschelt
Gen welchem er sich so entschüt
Das er gestritten habe nit
Noch niemand mit den Waffen sein
Beschedigt oder bracht ein pein:
Dem gabens wider diese sag
Drumb hastu mehr gsündigt du zag
Dann du mit deinr Trommeten schall
Die andern zum streit greitzt hast all.

Notes:

1.  This is a version of Aesop, Fables 325.

2.  This is a proverbial expression.

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Alius peccat, alius plectitur.

One sins and another is punished

Dog biting on a stone that has been thrown by a man. Village in background.
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Arripit ut lapidem catulus morsuque fatigat,
Nec percussori mutua damna facit.
Sic plaerique[1] sinunt veros elabier hosteis,
Et quos nulla gravat noxia, dente petunt.[2]

A puppy seizes the stone and worries it with his teeth and does not bite back at the one who threw it. Even so, most people allow the true enemy to escape and bite those who carry no burden of guilt.

Notes:

1.  Textual variant: plerique.

2.  Cf. Aesop, Fables 235, where bees sting the wrong person. See Erasmus, Adagia 153, Cum larvis luctari, where the ‘puppy’ comparison is quoted from Aristotle (Rhetoric 3, 4). See also Plato, Republic 5.469E.

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