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Amygdalus.

The almond

Cur properans foliis praemittis amygdale flores?
Odi pupillos praecocis ingenii.[1]

Almond tree, why are you in such a hurry to put out flowers before your leaves? I hate precocious pupils.

Notes:

1. See Quintilian (Fabius Quintilianus), Institutio oratoria, 1.3.3: “the precocious type of intellect never easily comes to fruition”.

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trees: almond-tree (+ flowers, blossom, blossoming) [25G3(ALMOND-TREE)(+32)] Search | Browse Iconclass
Precocity (+ emblematical representation of concept) [51F521(+4)] Search | Browse Iconclass

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ILEX.

The holm-oak

Emblema. 204.

Duritie nimia[1] quod sese rumperet Ilex,
Symbola civilis seditionis habet.

Because the holm-oak splits spontaneously through excessive inflexibility, it provides symbols for civic discord.

Notes:

1. Duritie nimia, ‘excessive inflexibility’. Cf. Pliny, Natural History, 16.73.186 (tota ossea est ilex, ‘the holm-oak is entirely bone-like’).

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'Seditio'; 'Rebellione', 'Seditione civile' (Ripa) [44F0] Search | Browse Iconclass
Hardness [51G4] Search | Browse Iconclass
Destruction [58AA1] Search | Browse Iconclass

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