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Contre les Villains.
Oyseau d’Aegypte est Ibis, lequel vuyde
Son cul du bec, comme ung clystere.[1] Ovide
Et Battiade hont en reproche mis
Ce nom.[2] Ainsi nommans leurs ennemis.
Ibis est ung oyseau d’Aegypte, qui purge son
ventre du bec, en y mettant eau par le derriere,
& ha monstré l’invention du Clystere. Par le
nom duquel oyseau sont nomméz les villains,
qui font de leur bouche cul, en prononceant
deshonnestes parolles.
1. For this information about the ibis, see Aelian, De natura animalium, 2.35; Cicero, De natura deorum, 2.126; Pliny, Natural History, 8.41.97.
2. Battiades, ‘the inhabitant of Battus’ town’, i.e. the poet Callimachus, a native of Cyrene, a town founded by Battus. Ovid refers to Callimachus’ invective (not now extant) in his own poem Ibis, 53ff.
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