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Le glaive du furieux.
Faict furieux Ajax par grandz regretz
Tuoit ses porcz, pensant tuer les Grecz.[1]
Ainsi le porc portoit la penitence
Pour Ulysses, & des Grecz la sentence.
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Fureur ne peut nuyre. Mais son coup fault,
Et sans advis contre soy mesme sault.
Ajax le vaillant champion, condamné contre
Ulysses par la sentence injuste des Grecz, au pro-
ces des armes d’Achilles, devint fol furieux par
indignation, & en sa rage il rencontra ung grand
tropeau de ses porceaulx: lesquelz (pensant que
fussent les Grecz) il tua à grand [=grandz]
coups d’espée: ce
que ne veult aultre
chose à dire: sinon que Fureur,
& Ire (qui est temporaire manie) se nuyct plus
que à nul aultre, soit en contention civile, ou d’ar-
mes. Car en l’une perd sens, raison, & parolle, en
l’aultre, perd adresse, & visée, & le plus souvent
par trop grand ardeur s’enferre soy mesme.
1. See Emblem 27 ([A58a027]) for Ajax’ madness and suicide. In his madness, he slaughtered a herd of sheep, thinking them to be the Greeks. The two largest rams he took to be Agamemnon and Menelaus. See Zenobius, Proverbs, 1.43; Horace, Satires, 2.3.197-8; Erasmus, Adagia, 646 (Aiacis risus) - Erasmus makes the animals pigs, which Alciato here follows.
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