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Che dalla guerra procede la pace.

From war comes peace.


Ecco, chel’elmo, onde l’soldato armato
Spargendolo di sangue altrui feria,
Hora del’Api è fatto albergo gratto.
E dentro il mel si patorisce e cria.
Pongansi l’arme, fuor che alhor che giace
Morto il riposo, e non di gode pace


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EX BELLO PAX.

Peace succeeding to war

Emblema 176.

En galea, intrepidus quam miles gesserat, & quae
Saepius hostili sparsa cruore fuit:
Parta pace apibus tenuis concessit in usum
Alveoli, atque favos, grataque mella gerit.
Arma procul iaceant, fas sit tunc sumere bellum,
Quando aliter pacis non potes arte frui.[1]

See here a helmet which a fearless soldier previously wore and which was often spattered with enemy blood. After peace was won, it retired to be used as a narrow hive for bees; it holds honey-combs and nice honey. - Let weapons lie far off; let it be right to embark on war only when you cannot in any other way enjoy the art of peace.

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1.  Cf. Anthologia graeca, 6.236, where bees nest in what were once the beaks (projections at the prow) of war-galleys.


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