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EMBLEMA CV.

In oblivionem patriae.

Forgetting one’s country

Iam dudum missa patria, oblitusque tuorum,
Quos tibi seu sanguis, sive paravit amor.
Romam habitas: nec cura domum subit ulla reverti.
Aeternae tantùm te capit urbis honos.
Sic Ithacûm praemissa manus[1] dulcedine loci [=loti]
Liquerat & patriam, liquerat atque ducem.

You have long since given up your country and, forgetful of your own people given you by blood or love, you dwell in Rome, and no thought of returning home ever occurs to you. Only the glory of the eternal city possesses you. Even so the advance party of Ithacans, through the sweetness of the lotus, had abandoned homeland and abandoned leader too.

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Das CV.

Wider die vergessenheit deß Vat-
terlands.

Men grouped round, and eating the fruit of, a tree which is in the shape of a woman.
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Dein Heimat und Vatterland hast
Ein lange zeit verlassen fast
Und deren gar vergessen schier
Die dein freundt warn und verwandt dir.
Zu Rom wonstu und nit gedenckst
Daß du auch einmal zu hauß lendst
Sonder die schön zierd und gestalt
Helt dich allein auff der Statt alt
Also Ulyssis außgschickt rot
Als sie versuchen thet das Lot
Verliessen irn Obersten Herrn
Und gedachten nit heim zu kern.

Notes:

1.  Ithacum...manus, ‘party of Ithacans’. See Homer, Odyssey 9.83ff. for the story of Ulysses’ crew (men from the island of Ithaca) in the land of the Lotus Eaters, where those who ate the lotus had no more thought of returning home. See Erasmus, Adagia 1662 Lotum gustavit.

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