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IN RECEPTATORES
sicariorum.

Those who harbour cut-throats

Emblema lii.

Actaeon changing into a stag and being attacked by his hounds
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Latronum, furúmque manus tibi, Scaeva[1], per urbem
It comes, & diris cincta cohors gladiis:
Atque ita te mentis generosum prodige censes,
Quòd tua complures allicit olla malos.
En novus Actaeon, qui postquàm cornua sumpsit,
In praedam canibus se dedit ipse suis.[2]

An evil-minded band of ruffians and thieves accompanies you about the city, a gang of supporters armed with lethal swords. And so, you wastrel, you consider yourself a fine lordly fellow because your cooking pot draws in crowds of scoundrels. - Here’s a fresh Actaeon - he, after he grew his horns, became the prey of his own hunting dogs.

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EX Phavorino citatur illud à Stobaeo: Quem-
admodum Actaeon à canibus, quos alebat, dis-
cerptus est: ita parasiti & assentatores eos à qui-
bus enutriuntur, miserè perdunt. Id verò in eos
torquet Alciatus, qui latrones furésque domi suae
receptant: aut etiam (ut verbis utar Marcellini,
lib.14.) qui familiarium agmina tanquam praeda-
torios globos post terga trahunt. à quibus tandem
miserè absumuntur.

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Contre les recelateurs de brigans & volleurs.

TU t’estimes beaucoup d’avoir une grand’ queuë
De spadassins, volleurs, & brigans, à la veuë
D’un chacun; pensant bien les avoir à ton point:
Mais ta cuisine chaude iceux attire & point.
Fins & rusez qu’ils sont, à la table[3] ils se rengent,
Te faisans compagnie, & ce pendant te mangent.
O nouvel Acteon, qui estant devenu
Sans adviser à soy, un cerf[4] au chef cornu,
Lors que moins y pensoit sa peau est deschiree
Par les chiens qu’il nourrit, & leur sert de curee.

EN Stobee est cité ce traict du Philoso-
phe Phavorin: ainsi comme Acteon fut
desmembré & deschiré par les chiens qu’il
nourrissoit: ainsi les happelopins & flateurs
perdent miserablement ceux dont ils sont en-
tretenus. Mais cecy est employé par Alciat
contre ceux qui recellent en leurs logis les
brigans & larrons: ou bien (afin que j'use du
propos d’Ammian Marcellin livre 14.) qui
ont tousjours à la queuë une grand’ suite de
bons chalans, comme un grand squadron de
volleurs, desquels ils[5] sont mangez en fin mi-
serablement.

Notes:

1.  Scaeva, ‘evil-minded’. The capital letter suggests that the Latin word could be taken as a proper name in the vocative case, i.e addressing one Scaeva.

2.  For the story of Actaeon turned into a stag and killed by his own hounds, see Ovid, Metamorphoses 3.138ff. Similarly, the hangers-on will destroy the one who has fed them.

3.  Corrected from the Errata

4.  Corrected from the Errata

5.  Corrected from the Errata

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In receptatores sicariorum.

Those who harbour cut-throats

XCIIII.

Man with Deer head being attacked by dogs
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Latronum furumque manus tibi Scaeva[1] per urbem
It comes, & diris cincta cohors gladiis.
Atque ita te mentis generosum prodige censes,
Quòd tua complureis allicit olla malos.
En novus Actaeon, qui postquàm cornua sumpsit
In praedam canibus se dedit ipse suis.[2]

An evil-minded band of ruffians and thieves accompanies you about the city, a gang of supporters armed with lethal swords. And so, you wastrel, you consider yourself a fine lordly fellow because your cooking pot draws in crowds of scoundrels. - Here’s a fresh Actaeon - he, after he grew his horns, became the prey of his own hunting dogs.

COMMENTARIA.

Actaeon filius Aristei, venationibus pluri-
mum delectabatur, ideoque canes quamplures
domi suae alebat. Cùm verò semel post vena-
tionem defatigatus ad fluvium quendam secre-
tum lavandi recreandique gratia sese contulisset,
ibi fortuitu vidit Dianam (venationis deam
castitatis & solitudinis amicam,) nudam se
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in cervum transmutavit, cumque domum redi-
re vellet à Canibus suis propriis laniatus &
discerptus fuit, ut elegantissimè Ovidius lib. 3.
Metamorphoseon. Idemque breviter. lib. 2. de tristibus.

Inscus Actaeon vidit sine veste Dianam:
Praeda suis canibus non minus ille fuit.

Sic etiam nonnulli vel ideo se generosos, li-
berales, & magnanimos putant, quòd latro-
nes homicidas, proditores & huius farinae ho
mines fovent, nutriunt, eisque comitibus superbè
incedunt: cum hi prodigi potius sint nihilque
aliud quàm novum Actaeonem repraesentent.

Notes:

1.  Scaeva, ‘evil-minded’. The capital letter suggests that the Latin word could be taken as a proper name in the vocative case, i.e addressing one Scaeva.

2.  For the story of Actaeon turned into a stag and killed by his own hounds, see Ovid, Metamorphoses 3.138ff. Similarly, the hangers-on will destroy the one who has fed them.

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