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Vendetta giusta.
Just revenge.
Mentre disteso nel suo cavo speco
Sta Polyphemo: e
canta, o pecorelle,
Gite pascendo voi l’lherbe
novelle,
Ch’io
mi
pasceṛ poi del sangue Greco:
Ulysse, ch’era
da vicino, audace
L’assalta, e l’occhio
che sol ne la fronte
Havea, gli toglie,
vendicando l’onte
Di mille e mille, e se n’anḍ; con pace.
Cosi’l
fato
quell’empio
a orhezza mena.
E cosi nel suo autor cadde la pena.
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IUSTA ULTIO.
Just revenge
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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 sucubuitque 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.
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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