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Section: PERFIDIA (Treachery). View all emblems in this section.

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VITIA.

Vices

In victoriam dolo partam.

On victory won by guile

A woman seated on the tomb of Ajax, pulling out her hair
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Aiacis tumulum lachrymis ego perluo virtus.
Heu misera albentes dilacerata comas.
Scilicet hoc, restabat adhuc, ut iudice Graeco[1]
Vincerer: & causa stet potiore dolus.[2]

I, Virtue, bedew with tears the tomb of Ajax, tearing, alas, in my grief my whitening hairs. This was all it needed - that I should be worsted with a Greek as judge, and that guile should appear to have the better cause.

Notes:

1.  The Greek assembly awarded the arms of the dead Achilles to the cunning and eloquent Ulysses, not the brave and straight-forward Ajax. For Ajax’ subsequent suicide, see [A51a028].

2.  See Anthologia graeca 7.145.

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