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Pax.

Peace

LXXX.

Elephant pulling a chariot up to the door of a temple. Armour lying on the ground.
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Turrigeris humeris, dentis quoque barrus eburni,
Qui superare ferox Martia bella solet,
Supposuit nunc colla iugo, stimulisque subactus,
Caesareos currus ad pia templa vehit.
Vel fera cognoscit concordes undique gentes,
Proiectisque armis munia pacis obit.[1]

The elephant, with its tower-bearing shoulders and ivory tusk, a beast accustomed to dominate the conflicts of Mars with savage ravings, has now submitted its neck to the yoke: subdued by goads, it draws Caesar’s chariot to the holy temples. Even the beast recognises nations reconciled on every side, and rejecting the weapons of war, it performs the duties of peace.

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Frid.

LXXX.

Was gschicht verandrung in der welt,
Vor zeiten dient ein Elephant
Allein zu krieg, und im den [=in dem] veld,
Jetz an des Kaysers wagen gespandt,
Dient er gar vil in andermm stand,
Einem getzaemptem roß geleich:
Als wer auch disem thier bekant,
Das frid ist in dem gantzen reich.

Notes:

1.  This is translated from Anthologia graeca 9.285, which refers to an occasion under the Emperor Tiberius when the statue of the Deified Augustus was for the first time borne in procession in a chariot drawn by elephants.

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La figura de la Esperança.

TERCETOS.

Dialogo. Lettor. Esperança.

Group of statues. Two women, one sitting holding a snake, one standing holding a staff. One child and a man holding a cup and a sheaf of corn.
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L. Quien eres tu que a’l cielo estas alçada?
Con que pinzel fue fecha tu figura?
E. Elpidio[1] me pintò. yo soy llamada
Link to an image of this page  Link to an image of this page  [G5v p106] La Esperança que no ay cosa dura
Que facil no la buelva y la enternezca.
L. Por que hizo verde (di) tu vestidura?
E. No ay cosa que por mi no reverdezca.
L. Por que las flechas de la Muerte ayrada
Quebradas traes?[2] E. Porque a’l bivo crezca
Solamente Esperança, que acabada
La vida, que esperar acà no queda.
L. En la tinaja por que estàs sentada?
E. Volando el mal yo sola estuve queda:
Como lo canta d’el Ascręo la Musa.[3]  [M]
L. Que ave es esa (di) tan mansa y leda?
E. Es la Corneja[4], que contino usa
El dar buena Esperança, por que quando
No es, dize serà con voz confusa.
Link to an image of this page  Link to an image of this page  [G6r p107] L. Quien son los que te estan acompañando?
E. Cobdicia y Buen succeso,[5] y van delante
Los que velando estan, y estan soñando.
L. Quien es esotra que con faz constante
Te mira y te acompaña y junta viene?
E. Es la que venga el mal en un instante,  [M]
Y solo da à sperar lo que conviene.

[Marginalia - link to text]Hesiodo.

[Marginalia - link to text]Nemesis.

Notes:

1.  Elpidius is an invented name derived from Greek ἐλπίς, ‘hope’.

2.  For Death’s arrows cf. [A49a065], [A49a066].

3.  See Hesiod, Opera et dies 90ff. for the story of Pandora’s box or jar

4.  The crow was a bird of prophecy and an emblem of hope. Its caw was interpreted as cras, cras, ‘tomorrow, tomorrow’. Cf. the proverb, Quod hodie non est, cras erit: ‘What is not today shall be tomorrow.’

5.  Bonus Eventus or Bonne Aventure, cf. Evento Buono in Ripa, Iconologia; also called ‘Success’ or ‘Happy Ending’.

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