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Amitié durante, voire apres la mort.[1]
Une Olme seiche, & sans fueille,[2] embrassa
La belle vigne, & sa verdeur dressa.
Recognoissant naturel benefice,
Rendit le droict de mutuel office.
Donnant exemple, amis telz comparer,
Que mort aussi ne puisse separer.
La vraye amitié est de l’esprit, non du corps, l’esprit
est immortel: parquoy elle est immortelle, faisant fai
re debvoir d’amy, non seulement en la vie: mais aussi
apres la mort. Comme feict Alexandre à Hephestion.
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- trees: elm (+ dead, withered plant) [25G3(ELM)(+371)] Search | Browse Iconclass
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- life versus death [31E5] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Necessity of Mutual Co-operation [54E11] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Fidelity in Friendship; 'Confermatione dell'Amicitia', 'Fede nell'Amicitia' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept) [56F231(+4):31E] Search | Browse Iconclass
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AMICITIA ETIAM POST MOR-
TEM DURANS.[1]
Friendship lasting even beyond death
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Arentem senio, nudam quoque frontibus [=frondibus]
ulmum,
Complexa est viridi vitis opaca coma.[2]
Agnoscitque vices naturae & grata parenti.
Officii reddit mutua iura suo.
Exemploque monet, tales non [=nos]
quaerere amicos,
Quos neque disiungat foedere summa dies.
A vine shady with green foliage embraced an elm tree that was dried up with age and bare of leaves. The vine recognises the changes wrought by nature and, ever grateful, renders to the one that reared it the duty it owes in return. By the example it offers, the vine tells us to seek friends of such a sort that not even our final day will uncouple them from the bond of friendship.
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