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Souffre, & abstien.
Fortune adverse à l’homme est à porter,
Fortune heureuse est souvent à doubter.
Souffre, & abstien. Maint mal fault soustenir
(Dict Epictete)
& de plus s’abstenir:
Ainsi le Boeuf tant fort souffre l’estache.
Ainsi s’abstient de couvrir pleine vache.
Le Toreau endurant la servitude à l’homme moins
fort que luy, & se abstenant de la vache empreincte,
donne exemple de, Patience, & Abstinence.
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Section: FORTITUDO (Fortitude). View all emblems in this section.
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Obdurandum adversus
urgentia.
Stand firm against pressure.
Nititur in pondus palma, & consurgit in arcum,
Qụ magis & premitur, hoc mage tollit onus:[1]
Fert & odoratas bellaria dulcia glandes,[2]
Queis mensas inter primus habetur honos.
I puer, & reptans ramis has collige, mentis
Qui constantis erit, praemia digna feret.
The wood of the palm-tree counteracts a weight and rises up into an arch. The heavier the burden pressing it down, the more it lifts it up. The palm-tree also bears fragrant dates, sweet dainties much valued when served at table. Go, boy, edge your way along the branches and gather them. The man who shows a resolute spirit will receive an appropriate reward.
1. The reaction of palm to a heavy weight is mentioned in various ancient sources, e.g. Pliny, Natural History 16.81.223; Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 3.6. See also Erasmus, Parabolae p.263. It probably refers to a plank of palm-wood, rather than a branch of the living tree.
2. See Erasmus, Parabolae p.241: ‘the palm-tree, having bark with knife-sharp edges, is difficult to climb, but it bears delicious fruit’.
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