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EMBLEMA CLXXXVIII [=187] .
Semper praesto esse infortunia.
Misfortune is always at hand
Ludebant parili tres olim aetate puellae
Sortibus: ad Stygias quae prior iret aquas.
Ast cui iactato male cesserat alea talo,
Ridebat sortis caeca puella suae:
Cum subitò icta caput labente est mortua tecto,
Solvit & audacis debita fata ioci.
Rebus in adversis mala sors non fallitur: ast in
Faustis nec precibus, nec locus est manui.[1]
Once three girls of the same age were amusing themselves, casting lots to see which of them would be the first to go to the waters of the Styx. When the dice were cast, the throw fell out unluckily for one of them, but she laughed with blind contempt at the fate predicted for her. Then suddenly she died, struck on the head as the roof fell in, and so paid the fated penalty for her bold mockery. In misfortune, a bad omen cannot be eluded, but even in prosperity neither prayers nor action have any place.
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Das CLXXXVIII [=187] .
Unglück ist stäts vor der Thür.
Mit einander der Gspilen drey
Gleich alt auff ein zeit spielten frey
Und wurffens loß welch under in
Solt vor der ander ziehen hin.
Das töricht Meidlin das im Spil
Warff daß sie solt zum ersten ans zil
Hielts für ein schertz darüber lacht
Vermeint nit daß es hett ein macht
Vom Dach aber ein Ziegel rot
Herunder fiel, traff sie zu todt
Wurd also auß dem schertz gar bhend
Ein ernst, also das Glück sich wend.
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Daß das böß loß in bösem Glück
Betreugt nit es erzeigt ein tück
Im guten aber es treg ist
Gibt auff flehen noch trehnen nichts.
1. This is a translation of Anthologia graeca 9.158.
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