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Sur la statue de Pudeur.

III.

Penelope vouloit suyvre son cher Ulysse,
Mais Icare vouloit l’avoir aupres de soy:
L’un luy presente Ithaque, Icare fait ottroy
De Sparte: elle ne sįait auquel elle accomplisse.
Elle baisse sa face, & ferme ses deux yeux,
Vray signe de Pudeur. Icare, ce voyant,
La laisse ā son espoux, au Temple dediant
Un tableau de Pudeur du tout industrieux.[1]

Commentaires.

Pausanias recite, que le simulacre de Pudeur fut
offert & dedié par Icarius. Les femmes doyvent tout
honneur, secours & reverence ā leurs pere & mere:
Mais elles sont obligees de suyvre & obeīr ā leurs
maris. De lā dit-on, que la vierge appartient au pere,
& la femme ā son mari. Icare, pere de Penelope, ne
pouvant persuader ā Ulysse de quitter Ithaque, & se
retirer en Lacedemone, s’addresse ā sa fille, luy de-
mandant qu’elle ne l’abandonnast point. Ulysses, ne
voulant pas s’en faire croire, & user de son droit, re-
mit le tout ā sa femme, luy promettant de suyvre celuy
qu’elle voudroit. Penelope, couvrant sa face, ne respond
mot. Dont le pere ayant congnu par lā la volonté de
Link to an image of this page  Link to an image of this page  [L5v p170] sa fille, la laisse ā son mari: & pour memoire du faict
fit peindre & dresser un tableau de Pudeur.

Notes:

1.  See Pausanias, Periegesis, 3.20.10, for this statue and the story behind it.

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    In pudoris statuam.

    A statue of Modesty

    III.

    Penelope desponsa sequi cupiebat Ulyssem,
    Ni secum Icarius mallet habere pater.[1]
    Ille Ithacam, hic offert Spartem manet anxia virgo,
    Hinc pater, inde viri mutuus urget amor.
    Ergo sedens velat vultus, obnubit ocellos:
    Ista verecundi signa pudoris erant.
    Queis sibi praelatum Icarius cognovit Ulyssem,
    Hocque pudori aram schemate constituit.[2]

    When Penelope was betrothed, she wished to go with Ulysses, except that her father Icarius would have preferred to keep her with him. Ulysses offers Ithaca, her father Sparta. The girl is distressed: on opposite sides her father and the mutual love between her and her man make their claims on her. So she sits and covers her face, veils her eyes - those were the signs of seemly modesty. By them Icarius knew that Ulysses was preferred to himself, and he set up an altar to Modesty in this form.

    Notes:

    1.  Some editions give a variant reading, Ni secus Icarius ..., ‘except that ... Icarius would have preferred to have it otherwise’.

    2.  See Pausanias, Periegesis, 3.20.10, for this statue and the story behind it.

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