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Doctos doctis obloqui
nefas esse.
It is wicked for scholars to wrangle with other scholars
Quid rapis heu Progne vocalem saeva Cicadam,
Pignoribusque tuis fercula dira paras?[1]
Stridula stridentem, vernam verna, hospita laedis
Hospitam, & aligeram penniger ales avem?
Ergo abice hanc praedam. nam musica pectora summum est
Alterum ab alterius dente perire nefas.
Alas, Procne, why, cruel bird, do you sieze on the melodious cicada and prepare a dreadful banquet for your young? A whistler yourself, you harm the shrill singer; a summer visitor, you hurt another fine-weather caller; a guest, you harm a guest; a feathered bird, you hurt another winged creature. So let this prize go. It is the greatest sin for hearts devoted to the Muses to perish by one another’s tooth.
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- song-birds: swallow (+ feeding and care of young) [25F32(SWALLOW)(+42)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- song-birds: swallow (+ nest, den, burrow) [25F32(SWALLOW)(+421)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- song-birds: swallow (+ animal with prey) [25F32(SWALLOW)(+452)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- song-birds: swallow (+ postures, positions of animal(s)) [25F32(SWALLOW)(+53)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- insects: cicada (+ dying animal; death of animal; dead animal) [25F711(CICADA)(+63)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- groups of plants (herbs) [25G13] Search | Browse Iconclass
- mountains [25H11] Search | Browse Iconclass
- clouds [26A] Search | Browse Iconclass
- ruin of a building ~ architecture [48C149] Search | Browse Iconclass
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- discussion, dialogue, dispute ~ scholar, philosopher [49C40] Search | Browse Iconclass
- scholar or scientist with muse [49L(+101)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Similarity, Likeness [51B2] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Eloquence; 'Eloquenza', 'Fermezza & Gravitą dell'Oratione' (Ripa) [52D3] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Disagreement, Discord; 'Discordia' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept) [54EE31(+4):51B3(+4)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Malevolence, Maliciousness; 'Malevolenza', 'Malignitą', 'Malvagitą' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept) [57AA7(+4)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- (story of the) Muses; 'Muse' (Ripa) [92D4] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Philomela, Procne and Tereus changed into nightingale, swallow, hoopoe (or hawk): Tereus seeks to kill Philomela and Procne for having slain his son; in their flight the two sisters are changed into a nightingale and a swallow; Tereus is changed into a ho [97DD23] Search | Browse Iconclass
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