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In momentaneam felicitatem.
Transitory success
LXVIII.
Aėriam propter crevisse Cucurbita pinum
Dicitur, & grandi luxuriasse coma.
Cłm ramos complexa, ipsumque egressa cacumen,
Se praestare aliis credidit arboribus.
Cui pinus, nimium brevis est haec gloria: nam te
Protinłs adveniet quae malč perdat[1] hyems.
A gourd, it is said, grew beside a lofty pine and flourished with abundant foliage. When it had enveloped the branches and grown taller than the tree-top, it then thought itself superior to the other trees. The pine said to it: This glory is exceedingly brief. For winter will shortly come which will utterly destroy you.
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A la briefve felicité.
LXVIII.
La courbte d’ung seul grain venue,
Le long d’ung hault arbre monta:
Et faict tant, qu’elle est pervenue
A ce, qu’elle le surmonta.
Lors sur tous arbres se jacta:
A quoy l’arbre la portant dit,
L’hyver qui vient une mort a,
Qui effacera ton credit.
1. Textual variant: perdet.
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Pietas filiorum in parentes.
Honour from children towards parents
Per medios hosteis patriae cłm ferret ab igne
Aeneas humeris dulce parentis onus:
Parcite dicebat, vobis sene adorea rapto
Nulla erit, erepto sed patre summa mihi.[1]
When Aeneas was carrying the dear burden of his father on his shoulders through the midst of the enemy, out of the flames destroying his homeland, he kept saying: Spare us. Carrying off an old man will bring you no glory; but carrying my father to safety will be the greatest glory for me.
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Pitie du fils au pere.
Aeneas de Troye sen fuyoit,
Son pere sur son col portant:
Et a ses ennemis cryoit,
Messieurs souffres de moy atant:
Si ce vieillart allez batant,
Nul est qui proffit en espere,
Et si cours me allez permetiant,
Gloire auray de saulver mon pere.
1. This is based on Anthologia graeca 9.163, a much translated epigram. It refers to the celebrated incident of Aeneas’ rescue of his old father at the sack of Troy, carrying him on his shoulders through the occupied and burning city. See Vergil, Aeneid 2.634ff.
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