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El Moral.
SEMIOTTAVA.
Nunca el moral prudente reverdeçe
Hasta que todo el frio sea
pasado,[1]
Y tiene nombre que no le mereçe [M]
Pues neçio (con ser sabio)
fuè llamado.[2]
1. See Pliny, Natural History, 16.25.102: ‘the mulberry is the last of domesticated trees to shoot, and only does so when the frosts are over; for that reason it is called the wisest of trees’.
2. Reference to a supposed ‘etymology by opposites’: Latin morus ‘mulberry’ was equated with Greek μῶρος ‘fool’, but the tree was considered wise: see note 1.
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- trees: mulberry-tree (+ plants used symbolically) [25G3(MULBERRY-TREE)(+1)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- trees: mulberry-tree (+ bearing fruit) [25G3(MULBERRY-TREE)(+34)] Search | Browse Iconclass
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- frost, freezing weather [26D] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Precaution (+ emblematical representation of concept) [52A24(+4)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Folly, Foolishness; 'Pazzia', 'Sciocchezza', 'Stoltitia' (Ripa) [52AA51] Search | Browse Iconclass
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