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Buxus.
The box-tree
Perpetuō viridis, crispoque cacumine buxus,
Unde est disparibus fistula fasta [=facta]
modis,[1]
Delitiis apta est teneris, & amantibus arbor.
Pallor inest illi, pallet & omnis amans.[2]
The box-tree is evergreen, with crinkly shoots. From it was made the pipe with its variously pitched notes. It is a tree appropriate to tender delights and to lovers. Box-wood is pale and so is every lover.
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- shrubs: box (+ plants used symbolically) [25G31(BOX)(+1)] Search | Browse Iconclass
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- lovers; courting, flirting [33C2] Search | Browse Iconclass
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- Pleasure, Enjoyment, Joy; 'Allegrezza', 'Allegrezza da le medaglie', 'Allegrezza, letitia e giubilo', 'Diletto', 'Piacere', 'Piacere honesto' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept) [56B1(+4)] Search | Browse Iconclass
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El Alamo blanco.
TERCETO.
De Hercules
los cabellos ciņe,[1] y muestra
El Alamo como la noche y dia
El uno a’l atro [=otro]
sus veįes
empresta.[2]
1. The white poplar was dedicated to Hercules. According to Pausanias, Periegesis, 5.14.2, Hercules introduced it to Greece. According to another story, Hercules on his way back from the Underworld garlanded his head with stems from a white poplar growing beside the Acheron, a memorial of the nymph Leuke (White) carried off by Pluto.
2. ‘noche y dia’, a reference to the dark green surface and white underside of the white poplar leaf. According to Pliny, Natural History, 16.36.87, the leaves of the white poplar turn over at the summer solstice. Hercules was equated with the sun: Macrobius, Saturnalia, 1.20.6 and 10.
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- day and night [23R] Search | Browse Iconclass
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- (story of) Hercules (Heracles) [94L] Search | Browse Iconclass
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