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Potentia Amoris.

The power of Love

LXXVI.

Cupid holding a bunch of flowers in one hand and a fish in the other.
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Nudus Amor viden’ ut ridet placidumque tuetur?
Nec faculas, nec quae cornua flectat habet.[1]
Altera sed manuum flores gerit, altera piscem,
Scilicet ut terrae iura det atque mari.

Do you see how Love, all naked, smiles, do you see his gentle glance? He has no torches, nor a bow to bend, but in one of his hands he holds flowers, in the other a fish, to impose his rule, of course, on land and sea.

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Gewalt der Lieb.

LXXVI.

Sih wie Cupido on all sein wehr
Hie ploß stet gmalt, und freuntlich lacht,
Als ob er niembt zu schaden bger,
Zaygt doch darneben an sein macht,
Zu lannd und meêr, das nim dier acht
Bey dem fisch und bluem so er tregt,
Es furcht sein regiment, und pracht,
Was sich in aller welt erregt.

Notes:

1.  These were traditional attributes of Cupid (Love). See [A42b081] and [A42b097].

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In eum qui truculentia suorum perierit.

On one who perished through the savagery of his own people.

LXXV.

Dolphin lying dead on the shore; ship in the sea.
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Delphinem invitum me in littora compulit aestus,
Exemplum infido quanta pericla mari.
Nam si nec propriis Neptunus parcit alumnis,
Quis tutos homines navibus esse putet?[1]

I am a dolphin whom the tide drove ashore against my will, an example showing what great dangers there are in the treacherous sea. For if Neptune does not spare even his own nurslings, who can think that men are safe in ships?

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Ungluck von den seinen.

LXXV.

Ich Delphin in dem mêer gepornn,
Erzogen, und vil jar ernert,
Bin doch zu loetzt durch wassers zorn
Geschlagen her auff drucken erd,
Erbermklich tod: woelchs billich lert,
Was auff dem mêer fur ungluck sind,
Den menschen es vil ehe versert,
So es nit schont seimm aygen kind.

Notes:

1.  This is based on Anthologia graeca 7.216 (two lines omitted).

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