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Doctos doctis obloqui nefas esse.
It is wicked for scholars to wrangle with other scholars
Emblema clxxix.
Quid rapis heu Progne vocalem saeva cicadam,
Pignoribusque tuis fercula dira paras?[1]
Stridula stridentem, vernam verna, hospita laedis
Hospitam, & aligeram penniger ales avem?
Ergo abice hanc praedam: nam musica pectora summum est
Alterum ab alterius dente perire nefas.
Alas, Procne, why, cruel bird, do you sieze on the melodious cicada and prepare a dreadful banquet for your young? A whistler yourself, you harm the shrill singer; a summer visitor, you hurt another fine-weather caller; a guest, you harm a guest; a feathered bird, you hurt another winged creature. So let this prize go. It is the greatest sin for hearts devoted to the Muses to perish by one another’s tooth.
Link to an image of this page [Z5r f245r]MUtuatus id è Graeco. Innuit indecorum esse ma-
ximè eos sese mutuis conviciis afficere, inter
quos summa debet esse animorum coniunctio, & à qui-
bus omnis petenda videatur humanitas. viros lite-
ratos intelligo, qui propter eruditionem qua caeteris
praestant, non debent esse molesti vel iniqui in eos
qui eiusdem sunt ordinis.
Link to an image of this page [Z5v f245v]Qu’il est mal seant que les doctes
s’entre-injurient.
A Quoy poursuis-tu tant, ennemie cruelle,
La Cigalle chantant, dy le moy hirondelle,
Pour nourrir tes petits? Je la puis t’egaler:
Car elle est chanteresse, & si est pritemniere
Comme toy elle vole, hante en mesme maniere,
Et domestique elle est, puis qu’il en faut parler.
Toy, as tu rien de plus? laisse moy telle oultrance.
Puisque d’elle jamais tu n’as receu offense,
Laisse la vivre libre, & cesse à l’outrager.
Car il est malseant, voire cest faute extreme
A ceux de mesme ranc & condition mesme
De se picquer l’un l’autre & de s’entremanger.
IL a emprunté cecy du Grec: voullant don-
ner à entendre qu’il est fort indecent mes-
mement à ceux entre lesquels doibt reluire
une grande concorde & desquels on doit ap-
prendre toute doulceur, de s’entrepiquer
de brocars & paroles injurieuses. J’enten les
hommes de lettre, lesquels à raison du sçavoir
au moyen duquel ils passent devant les au-
tres, ils ne se doivent rendre fascheux ou har-
gneux à l’endroit de ceux qui sont de mesme
ranc & qualité.
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- song-birds: swallow (+ feeding and care of young) [25F32(SWALLOW)(+42)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- song-birds: swallow (+ nest, den, burrow) [25F32(SWALLOW)(+421)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- song-birds: swallow (+ animal with prey) [25F32(SWALLOW)(+452)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- song-birds: swallow (+ postures, positions of animal(s)) [25F32(SWALLOW)(+53)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- insects: cicada (+ dying animal; death of animal; dead animal) [25F711(CICADA)(+63)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- groups of plants (herbs) [25G13] Search | Browse Iconclass
- ruin of a building ~ architecture [48C149] Search | Browse Iconclass
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- discussion, dialogue, dispute ~ scholar, philosopher [49C40] Search | Browse Iconclass
- scholar or scientist with muse [49L(+101)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Similarity, Likeness [51B2] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Eloquence; 'Eloquenza', 'Fermezza & Gravità dell'Oratione' (Ripa) [52D3] Search | Browse Iconclass
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- Philomela, Procne and Tereus changed into nightingale, swallow, hoopoe (or hawk): Tereus seeks to kill Philomela and Procne for having slain his son; in their flight the two sisters are changed into a nightingale and a swallow; Tereus is changed into a ho [97DD23] Search | Browse Iconclass
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