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La luxure.

LXI.

Le Chevrepied Faunus, s’entourant de roquette,[1]
De luxure excessive est signe manifeste.
La roquette & le bouc la luxure designent:
Les Satyres souvent apres Nymphes trepignent.[2]

Commentaires.

Les naturalistes tiennent la roquette estre extre-
mement chaude, & qui provoque merveilleusement
à luxure. Les Satyres sont celebrés par les poëtes,
pour estre merveilleusement ardents à ce mestier.

Notes:

1.  Rocket is described as herba salax at Ovid, Ars amatoria, 4.22. Pliny, Natural History, 10.83.182 and 19.44.154, lists it as an aphrodisiac.

2.  Satyrs were creatures half-human, half-goat in form, like Faunus, and Pan with whom Faunus was often identified. See emblems ([FALe077]), and ([FALd105]). Cf. Horace, Odes, 3.18.1: ‘Faunus, you who lust after the fleeing nymphs’.

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    IN DIES MELIORA.

    Getting better every day.

    Emblema. 45.

    A bristly boar (labelled Ulterius) with men at a table behind it
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    Rostra novo mihi setigeri suis[1] obtulit anno,
    Haecque cliens ventri noxia [=xenia] , dixit, habe
    Progreditur semper, nec retro respicit unquam,
    Gramina cum pando porruit [=proruit] ore vorax.
    Cura vîris eadem est, ne spes sublapsa retrorsum:
    Cedat, & ut melius sit, quod & ulterius.[2]

    A dependant of mine brought me the head of a bristly boar at the New Year and said: Here is a present for your insides. - The pig always moves forwards and never looks back as it greedily tears up plants with its flat snout. - Men have the same attitude - they don’t want hopes to collapse and fall back, they do want what lies ahead also to be better.

    Notes:

    1.  setigeri suis, ‘of a bristly boar’. For pork as a seasonal present at the Saturnalia (17-23 December), see Martial, Epigrams, 14.71: ‘This pig, fattened on acorns among the foaming boars, will make your Saturnalia happy’.

    2.  ulterius. This, the last word of the epigram, is written on the back of the boar in the pictura, where it suggests the meaning ‘ever onward’. Ulterius is sometimes used as a device of Charles V.

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