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DE ARBORIBUS.
EMBLEMA CC [=199] .
Cupressus.
The Cypress
Indicat effigies metae, nomenque Cupressi,
Tractandos parili conditione suos.[1]
The cone-shaped form and the name ‘cypress’ indicate that one’s people should be dealt with on equal terms.
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Von Beumen.
Das CC [=199] .
Cypreßbaum.
Deß Cypreßbaum nam, form und gstalt
So ein Laack gleich zeigt an mit gwalt
Daß ein jeder die seinen sol
In gleichem ansehn halten wol.
EMBLEMA CCI [=199 second part] .
Aliud.
Other
Funesta est arbor, procerum monumenta Cupressus,
Qualè Apium plebis comere fronde solet.[2]
The cypress is a funereal tree. Its branches usually adorn the memorials of leading men as parsley-stems adorn those of humble people.
Das CCI [=199 second part] .
Ein anderß.
Ein todten Baum der Cypreß ist
Mit seinem zweig er ziert zur frist
Der grossen herrn Leiblegung gleich
Wie der Epp der gemeinen leich.
EMBLEMA CCII [=199 third part] .
Aliud.
Other
Pulchra coma est, pulchro digestaque ordine frondes,
Sed fructus nullos haec coma pulchra gerit.[3]
The foliage is beautiful, and the leaves all arranged in neat order, but this beautiful foliage bears no fruit.
Link to an image of this page [S3v f126v]Das CCII [=199 third part] .
Ein anderß.
Schön geschmückt, schön broß und schön zweig
Gesetzt ordenlich nach einr reig
Also diese schöne Geschoß
Tragen kein frucht seind deren bloß.
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EMBLEMA CXCIX [=198] .
Terminus.
Terminus
Quadratum infoditur firmissima tessera saxum,
Stat cirrata super pectore imago tenus,
Et sese nulli profitetur cedere, talis
Terminus est,[1] homines qui scopus unus agit.
Est immota dies, praefixaque tempora fatis
Deque ferunt primis ultima iudicium.[2]
A squared stone is set in the ground, an unshakable cube, and on it stands a curly-headed image, fashioned down to the chest. This declares that it yields to none. Such is Terminus, the one and only goal that governs men. There is an immovable day, times predetermined by fate, and the last times pronounce judgement on the first.
Link to an image of this page [S2v f125v]Das CXCIX [=198] .
Laack. Termin .[3]
Ein vierecketer grosser Stein
Ein gwiß fest Lack wirt graben ein
Darauff ghauwen biß uber dbrust
Ein Bild steht, gmacht artlich mit lust
Und spricht, Ich niemand weichen wil
Also ist der Termin und zil
Welcher die Menschen allein treibt
Und keiner vor im sicher bleibt
Der tag und zeit von Gott bestimpt
Unbeweglich alles hinnimpt
Und felt vom ersten das urtheil
Das letst so kompt hernach mit eil.
1. For Terminus, the unyielding boundary stone, see Livy, 1.55. Terminus and the motto Concedo nulli (line 3) were adopted by Erasmus as his personal emblem. See Erasmus, Epistulae, 1092 (CWE Correspondence, vol. 7).
2. See Emblem 54, note to line 11 ([A67a054]).
3. The German in certain parts of this emblem is particularly puzzling.
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