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Imparilité.

Comme ung faulcon hault volle, l’air passant,
Cane, Oye, & Gay par terre vont paissant,
Ainsi Pindar, en ses dictz les cieulx passe.
Bacchylides escript en forme basse.[1]

Pindar le plus excellent des neuf Graecz Poë-
tes Lyricz, escript en style tres haultain Bacchi
lydes (aultrement doulx Poëte) escript en bas,
& humble style. Par lesquelz est monstrée im
parilite de personnes, en mesme estat. par simi
litude des oyseaulx hault volans, ou bas allans.

Notes:

1.  The first two lines are based on Pindar, Nemean Odes, 3.139-144, where Pindar seems to be obliquely disparaging the style and content of Bacchylides, another poet resident, like himself, at the court of Hiero of Syracuse in the early fifth century BC. See Erasmus, Adagia, 820 (Aquila in nubibus); 1988 (Humi serpere).

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    EMBLEMA CXXXV.

    Imparitas vel Imparilitas.

    Inequality or Inferiority

    Birds of prey attacking other birds feeding on the ground.
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    Ut sublime volans tenuem secat aëra falco
    Ut pascuntur humi graculus, anser, anas:
    Sic summum scandit super aethera Pindarus ingens,
    Sic scit humi tantùm serpere Bacchilides.[1]

    As the falcon cleaves the thin air flying high, as the jackdaw, the goose, the duck feed on the ground, so mighty Pindar soars above the highest heaven, so Bacchylides knows only how to creep along the ground.

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    Das CXXXV.

    Ungleichheit.

    Gleich wie der FalckFalck hoch in dem lufft
    Einher fleucht und trennet den dufft
    Und gleich wir herundn auff der Erdn
    Der Heher, Gans und Endt geweidet werdn
    Also schwingt in dhöch ubersich
    Pindrus der Poet gwaltiglich
    Also Bacchilides herwidr
    Krebsen und kriechen thut hienidr.

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    1.  The first two lines are based on Pindar, Nemean Odes, 3.139-144, where Pindar seems to be obliquely disparaging the style and content of Bacchylides, another poet resident, like himself, at the court of Hiero of Syracuse in the early fifth century BC. See Erasmus, Adagia, 820 (Aquila in nubibus); 1988 (Humi serpere).

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