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ΑΝΤΈΡΩΣ, id est AMOR
virtutis.

Anteros, that is, love of virtue

Cupid holding flowers, with garlands on the ground before him.
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Dic ubi sunt incurvi arcus? ubi tela cupido?
Mollia quîs iuvenum figere corda soles.[1]
Fax ubi tristis? ubi pennae? tres unde corollas,
Fert manus? unde aliam tempora cincta gerunt,
Haud mihi vulgari est hospes cum Cypride quicquam
Ulla voluptatis nos neque forma tulit.
Sed puris hominum succendo mentibus ignes,
Disciplinae animos astraque ad alta traho.
Quatuor eque ipsa texo virtute corollas,[2]
Quarum quae sophiae est, tempora prima tegit.[3]

Tell me, where are your arching bows, where your arrows, Cupid, the shafts which you use to pierce the tender hearts of the young? Where is your hurtful torch, where your wings? Why does your hand hold three garlands? Why do your temples wear a fourth? - Stranger, I have nothing to do with common Venus, nor did any pleasurable shape bring me forth. I light the fires of learning in the pure minds of men and draw their thoughts to the stars on high. I weave four garlands out of virtue’s self and the chief of these, the garland of Wisdom, wreathes my temples.

Notes:

1.  This is a translation of Anthologia graeca 16.201.

2.  ‘I weave four garlands out of virtue’s self’, a reference to the four cardinal virtues, justice, temperance, courage and wisdom.

3.  In the woodcut, Anteros is wrongly given wings. This iconographic mistake is carried over into early Wechel editions cf. [A34b081], but later corrected, through the removal of the wings. Cf. [FALa081].

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La paz.

Ottava rhima.

Man riding on an elephant pulling a chariot. Men holding armour trophies on poles.
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El elephante que vençer solia
Las guerras con las torres guarneçidas
De gente que en batallas el traia,
Sometiò a’l jugo sus fuerças rendidas
Y lleva armas d'el Cęsar à la pia  [M]
Yglesia, y da de paz nuevas complidas,
Por dar nos à entender como aun los brutos
Ven de la paz seguirse grandes frutos.[1]

[Marginalia - link to text]Julio Cesar.

Notes:

1.  This is based on 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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