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Il faut fuïr les courtisanes.
XVI.
Circé, fille au
Soleil, par ses arts tant pouvoit
Qu’en ours, boucs & lions les hommes transformoit,
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Tesmoin l’escuyer Pic,[1] et Scylle la biforme,[2]
Et les gents d’Ulysses, qu’en porceaux ell’ transforme.[3]
Cil qui du fol amour boit le sorcier bruvage,
Soudain en perd le sens, devient fol & mal sage.
Commentaires.
La fable de Circé se void en plusieurs auteurs,
Grecs & Latins. Ovide la descrit
aussi en sa metamor-
phose, & celle de Pic & de Scylla. Mais Palladas,
aux epigrammes Grecs,
destourne ailleurs celle de
Circé: car il dit, que Circé avec sa verge ne transfor-
moit point les homme en pourceaux & autres ani-
maux: mais qu’elle reduisoit
en telle povreté ses a-
moureux, qu’ils estoyent
contraints, s’ils vouloyent
substanter leur miserable vie, de devenir en fin lar-
rons, brigands, guetteurs de chemins, & meurtriers.
1. Picus, an Italian king, a breeder of horses, turned into a woodpecker by Circe. See Ovid, Metamorphoses, 14.320ff.
2. Scylla was transformed into a figure that was half girl, half barking dogs. See Ovid, Metamorphoses, 14.51ff. Cf. Emblem 94 ([FALd294]).
3. See Homer, Odyssey, 10.229ff. for the story of Ulysses’ sailors who were turned into pigs by Circe with a magic potion of wine.
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