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Sottie.

APOSTROPHE.

T’esbahiz tu, si Ote je te nomme,
Quoy que tu sois des Otons extraict homme?
Ote oyseau ha d’oreille, & plume autant
Qu’une Chouete:[1] & est prinse en saultant:
Les folz aiséz à prendre.[2] Otes on dict.
Pren doncque ce nom pour toy, car il te duyct.

Cest Embleme ne vient pas proprement
au Francois: comme au Latin, pour ne
pouvoir rendre une certaine allusion des
noms Latins, aulxquelz les Francois ne
peuvent correspondre. Mais en somme il
signifie que à ung sot, nom sot est con-
venable.

Notes:

1.  See Pliny, Natural History, 11.50.137: only the eagle-owl and the long-eared owl have feathers like ears (the little owl - chouette - does not in fact have ear-tufts).

2.  See Pliny, Natural History, 10.33.68: ‘The otus is an imitator of other birds and a hanger-on, performing a kind of dance; like the little owl, it is easily caught, when its attention is fixed on one person while another person circles round it’. See also Plutarch, Moralia, Bruta animalia ratione uti, 951E.

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    Ira.

    Rage.

    Lion surrounded by hunting dogs and men on horseback.
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    Alcaeam veteres caudam dixêre Leonis,
    Qua stimulante iras concipit ille graves.
    Lutea cùm surgit bilis, crudescit & atro
    Felle dolor, furias excitat indomitas.[1]

    The ancients called the lion’s tail alcaea, for under its stimulus he takes on dreadful fury. When the yellow bile rises and his temper grows savage with the black gall, the tail incites his indomitable rage.

    Notes:

    1.  The Greek word ἀλκαία was supposedly derived from ἀλκή ‘strength’ (see Emblem 3, n.3, [A50a003]). The Etymologicum Magnum, an ancient Greek lexicon, defines ἀλκαία as ‘properly the tail of the lion, because it urges him on to strength (ἀλκή)’. Pliny, Natural History, 8.16.49, describes how the lion’s tail lashes with increasing fury and spurs him on. See also Aelian, De natura animalium, 5.39.

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