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La coupe de Nestor.
Apostrophe, et Probleme.
Reçoy en don la coupe de Nestor
A double ventre argentin, & cloux d’or,[1]
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Ou autour sont quatre anses d’or, fort belles,
Et sur chascune, autant de colombelles.
Le vieil Nestor la pouvoit seul lever:
Quoy par cela veult Homere prouver?
La Coupe, C’est le ciel, blanc comme argent:
Estoiles sont les cloux d’or refulgent:
Colombes sont Pleïades, & leur course:[2]
Deux omblicz sont la grande, & petite ourse.
Nestor prudent scet ce par long usage.
Preux font la guerre. Astres connoist le sage.
Par la Coupe de Nestor ainsi devisée
en Ho-
mere, est signifiée Astronomie Art venue de
longue & accienne [=ancienne]
observation. Science de
certain conseil, & qui es grandz faictz plus
peut, & vaut que force corporelle.
1. Nestor’s bowl is described at Homer, Iliad, 11.632-7. Only Nestor, for all his great age (see Emblem 25. n.4, [A58a025]) could lift it when full. For the interpretation of Nestor’s cup (or mixing bowl) given here, see Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae, 11.487 F ff.
2. The Greek word for ‘doves’ is πελειάδες.
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