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Aliquid mali propter vicinum malum.[1]
Misfortune caused by a bad neighbour
Raptabat torrens ollas, quarum una metallo,
Altera erat figuli terrea facta manu.
Hanc igitur rogat illa velit sibi proxima ferri,
Iuncta ut praecipites utraque sistat aquas:
Cui lutea, Haud nobis tua sunt commercia curae,
Ne mihi proximitas haec mala multa ferat.
Nam seu te nobis, seu nos tibi conferat unda,
Ipsa ego te fragilis sospite sola terar.
A stream was carrying along two pots, one of which was made of metal, the other formed by the potter’s hand of clay. The metal pot asked the clay one whether it would like to float along close beside it, so that each of them, by uniting with the other, could resist the rushing waters. The clay pot replied: The arrangement you propose does not appeal to me. I am afraid that such proximity will bring many misfortunes upon me. For whether the wave washes you against me or me against you, I only, being breakable, will be shattered, while you remain unharmed.
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Voisinage peult rendre mal.
La riviere portoit deux potz,
Lung de terre, lautre de cuyvre:
Qui dit au foible telz propos:
Viens pres moy ton chemin poursuyvre.
Je ne te veulx (dit lautre) suyvre,
Ny aulcunement approcher:
Car tost me garderoys de vivre,
Si me laissoys a toy toucher.
1. See Avianus, Fables 11; Erasmus, Adagia 32, Aliquid mali propter vicinum malum.
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In deprehensum.
Caught!
Iamdudum quacunque fugis te persequor, at nunc
Cassibus in nostris denique captus ades.
Amplius haud poteris vires eludere nostras,
Ficulno anguillam strinximus in folio.[1]
For a long time now I have been pursuing you wherever you flee; but now you are here, at long last caught in our net. You will no longer be able to elude our power - we have gripped the eel tight in a fig-leaf.
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Au surprins.
Toutes les fois que tay happee,
Et que te pensoye bien tenir,
Tousjours tu mestoye eschappee,
Et ne tavoye peu retenir.
Ores puis je a tous maintenir,
Quay languille colant acquise:
Veu quon la me voit soustenir,
Entre feuilles de figuier prise.
1. The rough surface of the fig-leaf made it suitable for gripping slippery objects. See Erasmus, Adagia 395, Folio ficulno tenes anguillam.
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