Alciato at Glasgow: Dual Emblem Display

Amygdalus.

The almond

Cur properans foliis praemittis amygdale flores?
Odi pupillos praecocis ingenii.[1]

Almond tree, why are you in such a hurry to put out flowers before your leaves? I hate precocious pupils.

Notes:

1. See Quintilian (Fabius Quintilianus), Institutio oratoria, 1.3.3: “the precocious type of intellect never easily comes to fruition”.

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groups of trees [25G11] Search | Browse Iconclass
trees: almond-tree (+ plants used symbolically) [25G3(ALMOND-TREE)(+1)] Search | Browse Iconclass
shrubs [25G31] Search | Browse Iconclass
low hill country [25H114] Search | Browse Iconclass
prospect of city, town panorama, silhouette of city [25I12] Search | Browse Iconclass

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trees: almond-tree (+ flowers, blossom, blossoming) [25G3(ALMOND-TREE)(+32)] Search | Browse Iconclass
Precocity (+ emblematical representation of concept) [51F521(+4)] Search | Browse Iconclass

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Picea.

The spruce tree

EMBLEMA CCII.

At picea emittat nullos quòd stirpe stolones,
Illius est index, qui sine prole perit.

But the spruce, because it sends up no shoots from its stock, is a symbol of the man who dies without progeny.

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trees: pine (+ plants used symbolically) [25G3(PINE)(+1)] Search | Browse Iconclass
trees: pine (+ bearing fruit) [25G3(PINE)(+34)] Search | Browse Iconclass
trees: pine (+ plants used symbolically) [25G3(SPRUCE)(+1)] Search | Browse Iconclass
trees: pine (+ bearing fruit) [25G3(SPRUCE)(+34)] Search | Browse Iconclass

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