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Che un dotto non dee biasimar l’altro.
A learned man should not reproach another.
Deh, perche Progne la Cicala, tanto
Crudel rapisci? Se
pennuto uccello
Sei tu con l’ali, è anchor’ella
altretanto.
Se canti sovra
un tenero arboscello,
Et ella ingombra il cielo del suo canto.
Et è grato
a chi l’ode
e questo e quello.
Dunque lascia la preda, che non dei
Uccider cosa, a cui compagna sei.
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Section: VINDICTA (Retribution). View all emblems in this section.
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Iusta ultio.
Just revenge
Raptabat volucres captum pede corvus in auras
Scorpion, audaci praemia parta gulae.
Ast ille infuso sensim per membra veneno,
Raptorem in stygias compulit ultor aquas.
O risu res digna. aliis qui fata parabat,
Ipse perit: propriis succubuitque dolis.[1]
A raven was carrying off into the flying winds a scorpion gripped in its talons, a prize won for its audacious gullet. But the scorpion, injecting its poison drop by drop through the raven’s limbs, despatched the predator to the waters of the Styx and so took its revenge. - What a laughable thing! The one who was preparing death for others himself perishes and has succumbed to his own wiles.
1. This is a fairly free translation of Anthologia graeca 9.339. See Erasmus, Adagia 58, Cornix scorpium, where the Greek epigram is again translated.
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