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El Alamo blanco.
TERCETO.
De Hercules
los cabellos ciñe,[1] y muestra
El Alamo como la noche y dia
El uno a’l atro [=otro]
sus veçes
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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El Sauze.
TERCETO.
A’l Sauze llaṃ Homero
pierdefruto,[1] [M]
Y dị à entender que el que aborreçe el vino
Jamas en sciencia alguna es absoluto.
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1. Homer, Odyssey, 10.510. See Pliny, Natural History, 16.46.110: the willow drops its seed before it is absolutely ripe, and for that reason was called by Homer ‘seed-loser’.
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