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PAX.
Peace
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Turrigeris humeris, dentis quoque barrus eburni,
Qui superare ferox Martia bella solet. [M]
Supposuit nunc colla iugo stimulisque subactus,
Caesareos currus ad pia templa vehit.
Vel fera cognoscit concordes undique gentes,
Proiectisque armis munia pacis obit.[1]
The elephant, with its tower-bearing shoulders and ivory tusk, a beast accustomed to dominate the conflicts of Mars with savage ravings, has now submitted its neck to the yoke: subdued by goads, it draws Caesar’s chariot to the holy temples. Even the beast recognises nations reconciled on every side, and rejecting the weapons of war, it performs the duties of peace.
[Marginalia - link to text]Vide Suetonium in vita Gaii [Julii] Caesaris.[2]
1. This is translated from Anthologia graeca 9.285, which refers to an occasion under the Emperor Tiberius when the statue of the Deified Augustus was for the first time borne in procession in a chariot drawn by elephants.
2. The episode in Suetonius’s ‘Life of Julius Caesar’ (ch. 37) is not really relevant to this text.
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EMBLEMA XIIII.
Optimus civis.
The best citizen
Dum iustis patriam Thrasybulus[1] vindicat armis,
Dumque simultates ponere quemque iubet.
Concors ordo omnis magni instar muneris, illi
Palladiae sertum frondis[2] habere dedit.
Cinge comam Thrasybule, geras hunc solus honorem
In magna nemo est aemulus urbe tibi.
Thrasybulus was avenging his country with righteous weapons and bidding every person lay aside his enmities; so every class in harmony granted him by way of great reward the wearing of a crown of Pallas’ leaves. - Wreathe your hair, Thrasybulus; you alone are to wear this honour. There is no rival to you in the great city.
Das XIIII.
Ein guter Bürger.
Als Thrasybul mit waffen grecht
Sein Vatterland hett bracht zu recht
Und die Tyrannen all umbbracht
Und verschafft das jeder ließ nach
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Haben im alle Stend zu gleich
Für solche grosse gab im Reich
Einhelliglich ein Krantz gemacht
Auß ölzweig und den im gebracht
Setz auff dein haupt diß schönen Krantz
Dann niemand dir in der Statt gantz
Ist gleich, drumb du billich allein
Diß ehr solt hon mit niemand gmein.
1. Thrasybulus of Steiria, after a distinguished military career, was instrumental in liberating Athens from the tyranny of the Thirty in the political confusion at the end of the fourth century BC. For his own moderation and his resistance to vengeful acts by others in the ensuing settlement, see Cornelius Nepos, Life of Thrasybulus 3.2-3. According to Nepos (ibid. 4.3) Thrasybulus interpreted the olive-wreath freely offered him by the citizens as a sign that he was held in supreme honour by them.
2. ‘of Pallas’ leaves’, i.e. the leaves of the olive tree, sacred to Pallas Athene, patron goddess of Athens.
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