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Emulation non louable.
LXIX.
Quand l’aigle monte en l’air, le milan fait
devoir
De la suyvre, & happer ce qu’elle laisse choir.[1]
Le sargue suit aussi le rouget,[2] & attrappe
La viande & le butin, qui au premier eschappe.
Ainsi ma trace suit le borgne engoulevin,
Qui cuide bien voir clair en tout le droit Latin.
Mais quand il monte en chaire, & qu’au public il
sert,
Souvent l’auditoire est d’escholiers tout desert.
Commentaires.
Alciat en veut à un ignorant docteur en droit
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que quelques uns ont estimé s’appeler Alexandrin.
Alciat l’appelle beuveur de vin, mesdisant, envieux,
& peu sçavant: lequel, quoy qu’il fust
grand beste
se faisoit toutesfois bien accroire qu’il estoit habile
homme. Le milan & l’aigle, sont oiseaux qui devo-
rent beaucoup, comme aussi font le sargue & le rou-
get. Le milan suit l’aigle, & le sargue le rouget, à
fin qu’ils attrappent sans peine & sans travail, ce
qui eschappe aux vaillans & hardis, qui ont fait la
conqueste.
1. For the association of the kite and the hawk see Aristotle, Historia animalium, 9.1.609.
2. For the sargue see Emblem ([FALd029]). For its habit of following the mudfish and eating the food it disturbs as it burrows in the mud, see Pliny, Natural History, 9.30.65; Erasmus, Parabolae, p. 253.
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Maledicentia.
Evil speaking
Archilochi[1] tumulo insculptas de marmore vespas
Esse ferunt,[2] linguae certa sigilla malae.
They say that on the tomb of Archilochus wasps were carved in marble, sure figures of an evil tongue.
1. Archilochus was an eighth-century BC poet, author of much (now fragmentary) verse, including satire. This last was considered in antiquity to be excessively abusive and violent. See Horace, Ars Poetica, 79; also Erasmus, Adagia, 60 (Irritare crabrones).
2. ferunt, ‘they say’: words suggested by Anthologia Graeca, 7.71, an epigram concerning the tomb of Archilochus.
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