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Maux viennent promptement, &
biens à difficulté.

XCII.

Three women (two with staffs ) watch as a figure with wings and birds feet flies away.
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Até de Jupiter chassee
Pour nuire vola sur la terre.[1]
Et n’y fait pas une passee,
Sans rendre feu, faim, peste, ou guerre.
Lites apres vont,[2] non grand erre,
Car vieilles sont, & mal trotans:
Dont lon ne peut leur bien acquerre,
Fors par longue espace de temps.

commentaires.

Até est dite Deesse de ruïne, d’inimitiés, & de
Link to an image of this page  Link to an image of this page  [I3r p133] toute desolation. Elle est legere, & a des aisles. Estant
chassee & jectee hors du ciel, elle vint incontinent à
suborner les esprits des hommes, les enveloppant en
une infinité de maux: elle court d’un vol tresviste,
souillant & troublant tous les lieux par où elle passe.
Les Lites, filles de Jupiter, luy sont opposees, & la
suyvent de pres. Ces Lites sont prieuses & reconcilia-
trices des amitiés descousues. Ce que Até trouble en-
tre les humains, les Lites taschent de le radouber.
Mais pource qu’elles ont les yeux bigles & louches,
les pieds boiteux, & qu’elles sont lassees & travail-
lees par grand’vieillesse, elles cheminent fort lente-
ment, & à grand’ peine peuvent elles atteindre la
legere Até. Partant ce n’est pas promptement qu’el-
les remedient au mal, mais c’est apres quelque espace
de temps. Homere, qui ingenieusement a inventé ceste
fable, a voulu dire, que les offenses & inimitiés nais-
sent bien promptement, mais les reconciliations arri-
vent à cloche pied.

Notes:

1.  See Homer, Iliad 19. 125ff.

2.  See Homer, Iliad 9.502ff. Ate means ‘Mischief’, Litae, ‘Prayers’. Ate was cast out of Olympus to bring harm to mankind, a personification of humans being led astray. The Litae were a personification of prayers offered in repentance.

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REMEDIA IN ARDUO MALA.
in prono esse.

Remedies are hard, damage is easy

Old man with a staff following a snake like figure with wings
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Aetheriis postquam deiecit sedibus Aten,
Iupiter[1] heu vexat quàm mala noxa viros.
Evolat haec pedibus celer & pernicibus alis,
Intactumque nihil casibus esse sinit.
Ergo litae proles Iovis hanc comitantur euntem,[2]
Sarcturae quicquid fecerit illa mali.
Sed quia segnipedes strabae[3] lassaeque senecta,
Nil nisi post longo tempore restituunt.[4]

Once Jupiter had cast Ate down from the heavenly abode, what an evil bane thereafter assailed poor man! Ate flies out fleet of foot with fast-beating wing and leaves nothing untouched by mishap. So Jove’s daughters, the Litae, accompany her as she goes, to mend whatever ill she has brought about. But they are slow-footed, poor of sight and weary with age, and so they restore nothing until later, after long passage of time.

Notes:

1.  ‘Jupiter had cast Ate down’. See Homer, Iliad 19. 125ff.

2.  ‘the Litae accompany her’. See Homer, Iliad 9.502ff. Ate means ‘Mischief’, Litae, ‘Prayers’. Ate was cast out of Olympus to bring harm to mankind, a personification of humans being led astray. The Litae were a personification of prayers offered in repentance.

3.  Textual variant: luscae.

4.  The woodcut is puzzling. Possibly the monster is supposed to represent Ate; in later editions she appears as a harpy-like figure. The Litae feature, in later editions, as old women. The old man presumably represents the suffering of mankind.

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