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Ire.
Du fier Lyon la queuë est dicte alce,[1]
D’ond il se bat, quand il est courroucé,
Quand la cholere, & le fiel amer monte,
Fureur s’esmeut que raison point ne dompte.
Ire faict oublier raison, & ainsi
transmue l’homme en beste fu-
rieuse qui se nuict à elle mesme.
1. The Greek word ἀλκαία was supposedly derived from ἀλκή ‘strength’ (see emblem 3, [A58a003]). The Etymologicum Magnum, an ancient Greek lexicon, defines ἀλκαία as ‘properly the tail of the lion, because it urges him on to strength (ἀλκή)’. Pliny, Natural History, 8.16.49, describes how the lion’s tail lashes with increasing fury and spurs him on. See also Aelian, De natura animalium, 5.39.
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