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Ei qui semel sua prodegerit, aliena credi
non oportere.

Others’ property should not be entrusted to a person who has once squandered his own

Emblema liiii.

Bird flying towards statue of mother killing her child with a sword
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Colchidos in gremio nidum quid congeris? eheu
Nescia cur pullos tam malè credis avis?
Dira parens Medea suos saevissima natos
Perdidit, & speras parcat ut illa tuis?[1]

Why do you build your nest in the bosom of the woman from Colchis? Alas, ignorant bird, why do you entrust your nestlings so mistakenly? That frightful mother, Medea, in her savagery slew her own children. Do you expect her to spare yours?

SUmptum ex Graeco Archiae: éstque apostrophe
ad hirundinem in statuae Medeae quasi sinu nidi-
ficantem. Quae fabula torquetur in prodigos & de-
coctores, quibus nihil de rebus aliorum commit-
tendum, qui adeò pravè sua dilapidarint: eos enim
non secus atque aviculam imprudenter facere, quae
Medeae suos parvulos credat, cùm ea non conti-
nuerit manus à propriis liberis.

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L’autruy ne faut
donner en garde à qui mal a
mesnagé le sien.

PAuvre oiseau que fais tu d’ainsi vouloir ranger
Tes petits dans le sein de Medee au danger?
Elle qui mis les siens à une[2] mort amere,
Entre autres vrayement la plus cruelle mere:
Mais penserois-tu bien qu’elle pardonne aux tiens,
Qui point auparavant n’a espargné les siens?

CEcy est prins du Grec d’Archias: & c’est
une apostrophe à l’hirondelle faisant son
nid dans le sein d’une Medee taillee en bosse.
Ce qui est accommodé contre les prodigues
& grans despenciers, ausquels il ne faut don-
ner charge du bien d’autruy, veu qu’ils ont
si mal mesnagé le leur: car on feroit aussi fol-
lement que ce petit oyseau, qui met les siens
en la garde de Medee, qui n’a point heu
d’honte de mettre à mort les siens propres.

Notes:

1.  This is based on Anthologia graeca 9.346, a much-translated epigram, on the subject of a swallow that built her nest on a representation of Medea. Colchidos, ‘of the woman from Colchis’, refers to Medea, from Colchis on the Black Sea, who slew her children by Jason, leader of the Argonauts, to avenge his unfaithfulness. See further [FALc078].

2.  Corrected from the Errata

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EI QUI SEMEL SUA PRO-
degerit aliena credi non
oportere.

Others’ property should not be entrusted to a person who has once squandered his own

Statue of a woman killing her children
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Cholchidos in gremio nidum quid congeris? heu
Nescia cur pullos tam male credis avis.
Dira parens Medaea suos saevissima natos
Perdidit, & speras parcat ut illa tuis.[1]

Why do you build your nest in the bosom of the woman from Colchis? Alas, ignorant bird, why do you entrust your nestlings so mistakenly? That frightful mother, Medea, in her savagery slew her own children. Do you expect her to spare yours?

Notes:

1.  This is based on Anthologia graeca 9.346, a much-translated epigram, on the subject of a swallow that built her nest on a representation of Medea. Colchidos, ‘of the woman from Colchis’, refers to Medea, from Colchis on the Black Sea, who slew her children by Jason, leader of the Argonauts, to avenge his unfaithfulness. See further [A31a034].

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