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ABIES.
The fir tree
Emblema. 200.
Apta fretis Abies in montibus editur[1] altis:
Est & in adversis maxima commoditas.[2]
The fir tree that is fit to sail the sea grows high up on the hills. Even in hard circumstances, there is great advantage to be found.
1. Corrected from the Errata.
2. This is because it grows strong by withstanding the gales and harsh weather. Contrast Anthologia Graeca, 9.30ff, 105, and the much-translated 376 for an opposing view of the fir tree: “how can the fir, storm-tossed while growing on land, resist the gales at sea?” 9.31 was translated by Alciato (Selecta epigrammata, p. 98).
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Le Chesne.[1]
L’arbre à Jova qui tout garde, & maintient.
Chappeau de Chesne au gardeur appartient.[2]
Coronne Civique de Chesne estoit baillée par honneur
à celuy, qui avoit gardé, & sauvé un citoyen de mort.
Car le Chesne est consacré à
Jupiter, ou Jova (qui
est Dieu) lequel tout garde, & entretient.
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AULTRE.
Le Chesne sert premier de gland,[3] puis d’ombre,
De Jupiter l’arbre ha des biens sans nombre.
Avant les bledz trouvéz, Les anciens vivoyent
de gland de Chesne, & puis se reposoyent des-
soubz en l’ombrage, & pource consacroyent le
Chesne au souverain Dieu Juppiter, qui leur don
noit d’enhaut nourriture, & repos. Ce que signifie
la beneficence de Dieu estre telle, que apres le
fruict d’icelle receu, encore en sert l’ombre, &
memoire, comme faict la loy de Moyse, & les
Prophetes, a l’Evangile.
1. The woodcut here is a fairly close, laterally inverted, copy of that used in the 1549 French edition.
2. ‘a crown of oak’, awarded for saving the life of a fellow-soldier; see Pliny, Natural History, 16.3.7.
3. For the ancient belief that early man fed on acorns see e.g. Lucretius, De Rerum natura, 5.939; Vergil, Georgics, 1.7; Ovid, Metamorphoses, 1.106.
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