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Non tibi, sed religioni.
Not for you but for religion
Isidis effigiem tardus gestabat asellus,
Pando verenda dorso habens mysteria:
Obvius ergo Deam quisquis reverenter adorat,
Piasque genibus concipit flexis preces.
Ast asinus tantum praestari credit honorem
Sibi, & intumescit admodùm superbiens,
Donec eum flagris compescens dixit agaso,
Non es Deus tu aselle, sed Deum vehis.[1]
An ass with dragging feet was carrying an image of Isis, bearing reverend mysteries on its sagging back. So all who met him reverently offered worship to the goddess and recited pious prayers on bended knee. The ass however took it that all this honour was offered to himself, and began to swagger along swollen with pride - until his driver, reducing him with blows, said, ‘You are not god, my little ass, you are carrying god’.
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Non a toy, mais a religion.
Lasne portoit dung sainct la chasse:
Et voyant chascun prosterner,
Cuyde que ce pour luy se face:
Si pense ja tout gouverner.
Mais sur ce on le vint bastonner,
En luy disant motz de tel sorte:
Sus baudet, il fault pietonner:
Tu nes pas sainct, mais tu le porte.
1. See Aesop, Fables 266; Erasmus, Adagia 1104, Asinus portans mysteria.
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