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L’Amendelier.
Apostrophe.
Amendelier, Pourquoy si tost floris?
Trop bons ne sont les trop prompts esperitz.[1]
L’Amendelier est le premier
arbre qui fleurit, &
celluy qui plustost perit. Aussi
les trop hastifz
esperitz (comme dict Quintilian) à grand peine
jamais parviennent à fruyct.
1. See Quintilian (Fabius Quintilianus), Institutio oratoria, 1.3.3: ‘the precocious type of intellect never easily comes to fruition’.
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Link to an image of this page [D1v f25v]Salus publica.
The nation’s health
Phoebigena erectis Epidaurius insidet aris,[1]
Mitis & immani conditur angue deus.
Accurrunt aegri, veniatque salutifer orant:
Annuit, atque ratas efficit ille preces.
The Epidaurian scion of Phoebus broods on the altars built for him, and the god, all gentle, is concealed in a huge snake. The sick come running and beg him to draw near with healing. He consents and ratifies their prayers.
1. ‘The Epidaurian scion of Phoebus’, i.e. Aesculapius, son of Phoebus [Apollo] and god of medicine and healing. His main sanctuary and centre of healing was near Epidaurus in Greece. The god’s epiphany and symbol was a snake, and a number of sacred snakes were kept at the sanctuary. One of these was brought to Rome in 293 BC in hopes of stopping an outbreak of plague. The snake made its home on the Island in the Tiber, where a shrine and medical centre was subsequently built. See Ovid, Metamorphoses, 15.626ff.
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