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Dives indoctus.
The stupid rich man
LXXXVII.
Tranat aquas residens pretioso in vellere Phryxus,
Et flavam impavidus per mare scandit ovem.
Ecquid id est? vir sensu hebeti, sed divite gaza.
Coniugis aut servi quem regit arbitrium.[1]
Phrixus traverses the waters astride the precious fleece and fearlessly rides the golden sheep across the sea. - Whatever can this be? - A man dull of sense, but with rich coffers, whom the whim of wife or servant rules.
COMMENTARIA.
Phrixus filius fuit Athamantis Regis The-
barum ex priore uxore, qui Novercae[2] insidias
timens, cum sorore sua Helle, fugam para-
vit, acceptoque à patre Ariete aurei velleris eius
dorsum ambo ascenderunt, ut Pontum mare Link to an image of this page [i8v p144]
illud tranarent. Helle verò magnitudine ma-
ris perterrita decidit & submersa est, unde
mare illud ab ea, etiam hodie Hellespontus
dicitur. Ille verò in Colchos tandem perve-
nit, ibique Arietem immolavit, ac aureum eius
vellus in Templo suspendit, &c. Valerius Flaccus
in argonauticis. Est autem factum tale, viri qui-
dem divitis & opulenti, sed intellectu & ra-
tione carentis, qui arbitrio voluntateve uxo-
ris aut servi regitur. Quid autem re vera fue-
rit aureum vellus enarrat Antonius Sabelli-
cus: Aeneidum [=Enneadum]
1. libro 5.
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