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Rage.
Alceam veteres caudam dixere leonis,
Qua stimulante iras concipit ille graves.
Luthea cum surgit bilis, crudescit & atro
Felle dolor, furias excitat indomitas.[1]
The ancients called the lion’s tail alcaea, for under its stimulus he takes on dreadful fury. When the yellow bile rises and his temper grows savage with the black gall, the tail incites his indomitable rage.
1. The Greek word ἀλκαία was supposedly derived from ἀλκή ‘strength’ (see emblem 86, n.3, [A46a086]). 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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ENVIE.
Apodeixe.
Une femme est chair de serpent mangeant,
A qui les yeulx font mal, son coeur rongeant
Fort palle, & maigre. & d’espineuse poincte
Tient ung baston.
Telle est envie peincte.[1]
L’envieux s’entretient en son venimeux courage,
voit à regret le bien d’aultruy, se consume soy mes-
me, & bat aultruy de langue picquante.
1. This description is taken from Ovid, Metamorphoses, 2.760ff., a depiction of the House of Envy.
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