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EMBLEMA CLXXXIX [=188] .
Remedia in arduo, mala in prono
esse.
Remedies are hard, damage is easy
Aetheriis postquam deiecit sedibus Athen
Iuppiter:[1] Heu vexat quam mala noxa viros?
Evolat haec pedibus celer, & pernicibus alis,
Intactumque nihil casibus esse sinit.
Link to an image of this page [R4r f119r]Ergo Litae, proles Iovis, hanc comitantur euntem,[2]
Sarturae quicquid fecerit illa mali,
Sed quia segnipedes luscae, lassaeque senecta,
Nil nisi post longo tempore restituunt.
Once Jupiter had cast Ate down from the heavenly abode, what an evil bane thereafter assailed poor man! Ate flies out fleet of foot with fast-beating wing and leaves nothing untouched by mishap. So Jove’s daughters, the Litae, accompany her as she goes, to mend whatever ill she has brought about. But they are slow-footed, poor of sight and weary with age, and so they restore nothing until later, after long passage of time.
Das CLXXXIX [=188] .
Hülff ligt hoch, verderben nach.
Als Juppiter der höchste Gott
Vons Himmel Thron verstossen hat
Aten die Göttin Neids und Hassz
Ey wie plagt sie das Ertrich grassz
Mit iren Flügeln sie gar gschwind
Hinfleugt, ir Füß darzu schnell sind
Last also hin kein sach noch ort
Dens nit beschmeist und wüst betort
Der folgen aber hinden nach
Die Lite Jovis Töchter gmach
Wölten geren verbessern than
Was diese hat böß grichtet an
Dieweil sie aber alt und treg
Langsam und mit irem Gsicht schreg
Seind, können sie verbessern nicht
Es sey dann lange zeit hingricht.
1. ‘Jupiter had cast Ate down’. See Homer, Iliad 19. 125ff.
2. ‘the Litae accompany her’. See Homer, Iliad 9.502ff. Ate means ‘Mischief’, Litae, ‘Prayers’. Ate was cast out of Olympus to bring harm to mankind, a personification of humans being led astray. The Litae were a personification of prayers offered in repentance.
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