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EMBLEMA CXXX.
Iusta ultio.
Just revenge
Raptabat volucres captum pede corvus in auras,
Scorpion audaci praemia parta gulae.
Ast ille infuso sensim per membra veneno,
Raptorem in stygias compulit ultor aquas.
O risu res digna: aliis qui fata parabat,
Ipse perit propriis succubuitque dolis.[1]
A raven was carrying off into the flying winds a scorpion gripped in its talons, a prize won for its audacious gullet. But the scorpion, injecting its poison drop by drop through the raven’s limbs, despatched the predator to the waters of the Styx and so took its revenge. What a laughable thing! The one who was preparing death for others himself perishes and has succumbed to his own wiles.
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Das CXXX.
Billiche verdiente Rach.
Der Rab ein Scorpion voll Gifft
Fieng, und führte in hoch in die lüfft
Bald seiner fressigkeit so jach
Empfieng verdienten lon und rach
Dann der Scorpion allgemacht
Das Gifft ins Rabn Glieder bracht
Recht sich an seinem Rauber bald
Nimpt im das Leben mit gewalt
Es ist fürwar deß lachens wehrt
Das der andern ein Brey anrört
Denselben er muß essen auß
Und kompt sein untreuw im zu hauß.
1. This is a fairly free translation of Anthologia graeca 9.339. See Erasmus, Adagia 58, Cornix scorpium, where the Greek epigram is again translated.
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