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IN FERTILITATEM[1] SIBI IPSI
DAMNOSAM.
Fruitfulness bringing its own destruction
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Ludibrium pueris lapides iacientibus hoc me,
In trivio posuit rustica cura nucem.
Quae laceris ramis perstrictoque ardua libro,
Certatim fundis per latus omne petor.
Quid sterili posset contingere turpius? eheu,
Infoelix fructus in mea damna fero.[2]
A countryman’s care placed me, a nut tree, at this cross-roads, where I am the butt of stone-throwing boys. I have grown tall, but my branches are broken, my bark bruised, I am attacked with sling-stones, competing on every side. What worse fate could befall a barren tree? Alas, cursed tree that I am, I bear fruit to my own destruction.
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- trees (with NAME) (+ bearing fruit) [25G3(WALNUT-TREE)(+34)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- arm raised upward (+ holding something) [31A2511(+933)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- one leg in front of the other (+ standing) [31A2621(+51)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- looking upwards [31B6211] Search | Browse Iconclass
- child (+ two persons) [31D112(+72)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- boy (child between toddler and youth) [31D11221] Search | Browse Iconclass
- fence, wall, paling [41A54] Search | Browse Iconclass
- dress, gown (+ children's clothes) [41D211(+83)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- the naughty child [42B832] Search | Browse Iconclass
- sports, games and physical performances (+ requirements, necessaries ~ sports and games) [43C(+4)(STICK)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- child with plant (games and plays) (+ variant) [43C735(+0)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- vandalism (mischief-making play) [43C755] Search | Browse Iconclass
- casting weapons (with NAME) [45C11(SLING)] Search | Browse Iconclass
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- Damage, Disservice; 'Danno' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept) [54BB31(+4)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Fruitfulness, Productiveness, Fertility, Fecundity; 'Fecondità' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept) [58A3(+4)] Search | Browse Iconclass
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Amour de ses enfans.
Apostrophe.
Le Ramier faict son nid avant le ver,
Et ses oeufz couve au plus fort de l’hyver:
Pour ses petitz sa plume arrache, & nu
Il meurt de froid, quand l’hyver est venu.[1]
Progné, Medée, honte point ne te mord?
Veu qu’un oyseau pour les siens reçoit mort?[2]
La Palumbe qui se despoille, & meurt de froid pour
couvrir & eschaufer ses petiz venuz en hyver: donne
exemple de piteuse mere à toutes femmes: & faict honte à
celles qui laissent perir leurs enfans, par faulte de cure,
ou les tuent, comme feit Progné & Medée.
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- groups of plants (herbs) [25G13] Search | Browse Iconclass
- trees (+ bare plant) [25G3(+351)] Search | Browse Iconclass
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- winter, 'Hyems'; 'Inverno' (Ripa) [23D41] Search | Browse Iconclass
- feathers [25F(+352)] Search | Browse Iconclass
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- killing a child (absence of parental love) [42B290] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Medea kills her two children; she flees from Corinth in a chariot drawn by winged dragons [94A74] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Procne kills Itys, her son by Tereus, in order to serve him up as food to her husband [95B(PHILOMELA & PROCNE)66] Search | Browse Iconclass
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