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Renommee perpetuelle des choses hautes
& difficiles.
XXIII.
Ce qui doit durer à tousjours,
Et par gloire estre perdurable,
Ne peut venir en peu de jours:
Ains il y faut labeur notable.
Calchas en vid l’oeuvre admirable,
Es oiseaux qu’un Dragon mangea,
Au temps que par guerre incurable,
Les Troyens la Grece assiega.[1]
commentaires.
Calchas, renommé devin des Grecs, estant allé à la
guerre de Troye avec les autres, il advint qu’un dra-
gon de desmesuree grandeur gravit au sommet d’un
plane, où trouvant un nid, il devora promptement
neuf petits oiselets qu’il y trouva, & apres encor de-
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vora-il la mere. Ce Calchas, interrogué par les Prin-
ces Grecs, que c’est que pouvoit presagir le faict du
dragon, il leur dit, qu’ils assiegeroyent la ville de
Troye neuf ans continuels, avec grands travaux &
grandes difficultés, mais qu’au dixieme an ils l’em-
porteroyent, & seroit entierement consumee par le
feu. Ceste histoire nous signifie, qu’apres avoir beau-
coup pati & ahanné, en fin on rapporte de son tra-
vail une grand’ louange, & une renommee perpe-
tuelle.
1. See Homer, Iliad 2.299ff. for this portent which occurred at Aulis, where the Greek fleet was waiting to sail for Troy. Calchas the seer interpreted the eating of the eight chicks and their mother, followed by the death of the snake, as foretelling the nine-year battle for Troy, followed by success.
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