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HELLERA.
Ivy
Fu de Poeti gia degna corona
L’Hellera. questa è pallida,
& anchora
Pallido è chi per bere in Helicona
Suda mai sempre, e
s’affatica
ogn’hora.
Ella per tempo mai non abbandona
L’honor
de le
sue foglie: e qui dimora
Dopo la morte in ogni estremo lido
Del ben
dotto Poeta eterno il grido,
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EMBLEMA CCXVI [=211] .
Ilex.
The holm-oak
Duritiae nimia[1] quod sese rumperet Ilex,
Symbola civilis seditionis habet.
Because the holm-oak splits spontaneously through excessive inflexibility, it provides symbols for civic discord.
Das CCXVI [=211] .
Stein Eich.
Da die SStein Eich auß grosser hert
Sich von einander thut und zert
Gibt ein gemerck und anzeigung
Der Bürgerlichen embörung.
1. Duritie nimia, ‘excessive inflexibility’. Cf. Pliny, Natural History, 16.73.186 (tota ossea est ilex, ‘the holm-oak is entirely bone-like’).
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