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SPES PROXIMA.
Hope at hand
Innumeris agitur respublica nostra procellis,
Et spes venturae sola salutis adest.
Non secus ac navis medio circum aequore venti,
Quam rapiunt, salsis iamque fatiscit aquis.
Quod si Helenae adveniant lucentia sydera fratres,[1]
Amissos animos spes bona restituit.
Our country is battered by many a storm, and hope of future safety is all that we have. It is like a ship far out at sea, driven along by the tempest and already gaping open to the salty waters. Yet if the brothers of Helen, the shining stars, appear, then good hope revives the company’s lost courage.
1. ‘The brothers of Helen’, i.e. the stars Castor and Pollux, the Dioscuri, protectors of sailors.
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Iusta vindicta.[1]
Just recompense
XXXVII.
Dum residet Cyclops sinuosi in faucibus antri,
Haec secum teneras concinit inter oves:
Pascite vos herbas, sociis ego pascar Achivis,
Postremumque Utin viscera nostra ferent.
Audiit haec Ithacus, Cyclopaque lumine cassum
Reddidit, en poenas ut suus autor habet[2]. [3]
Sitting in the mouth of his arching cave, the Cyclops sang thus to himself amidst his gentle sheep: Do you feed on grass; I shall feed on the Greek companions, and last of all my belly shall get No-man. The man from Ithaca heard this and made the Cyclops eyeless. See how the one who plotted misfortune collects it himself!
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Juste vengeance.
XXXVII.
Cyclops homme ayant ung seul oeil,
Chantoit en gardant ses moutons:
Moutons mangez blette, ou cerfueil,
Je mangeray des valetons.
Ulyxes qui oyt ces tons,
Luy creva l’oeil d’une grande perche:
Ainsi ce fier Roy des gloutons.
Le mal recoit, que a aultruy cherche.
1. Before the 1536 edition, Wechel editions used a different picture.
2. A proverbial sentiment: cf. Erasmus, Adagia 3091, Di tibi dent tuam mentem.
3. For the story of Ulysses (the man from Ithaca) in the Cyclops’ cave and his escape by blinding the Cyclops, see Homer, Odyssey 9.177 ff. Ulysses had told the Cyclops his name was No-man. (Utis l. 4).
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