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Imparilité.
Comme ung faulcon hault volle, l’air passant,
Cane, Oye, & Gay par terre vont paissant,
Ainsi Pindar, en ses dictz les cieulx passe.
Bacchylides escript en forme basse.[1]
Pindar le plus excellent des neuf Graecz Poë-
tes Lyricz, escript en style tres haultain Bacchi
lydes (aultrement doulx Poëte) escript en bas,
& humble style. Par lesquelz est monstrée im
parilite de personnes, en mesme estat. par simi
litude des oyseaulx hault volans, ou bas allans.
1. The first two lines are based on Pindar, Nemean Odes, 3.139-144, where Pindar seems to be obliquely disparaging the style and content of Bacchylides, another poet resident, like himself, at the court of Hiero of Syracuse in the early fifth century BC. See Erasmus, Adagia, 820 (Aquila in nubibus); 1988 (Humi serpere).
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Contre les detracteurs.
XXVIII.
Les fessecul, & pedants eslourdis
Osent sur moy vomir leur sotte bile:
Quoy faire, helas! si suis si malhabile
Que de respondre, on dira que
j’ay pris
Le bout de l’aisle à cigale criarde,[1]
Pour de tant plus la faire estre bramarde.
Que gaigne-on à des mousches chasser?[2]
Ce qu’on ne peut faire, on le doit laisser.
Commentaires.
Alciat à façonné
cest embleme
pour soy, mais il se
trouve ailleurs tant en son nom, qu’au nom de Budee,
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Zaze, & autres: & ce contre un qu’ils nomment
Ranciscus Olidus,[3] par detraction de deux lettres, &
changement d’une. Quand lon saisit la
cigale par l’ai-
sle, elle crie tant plus fort. Ainsi, qui voudra respond-
re à un detracteur, tant s’en faut qu’il se taise, qu’il
criera d’avantage, & avec plus d’impudence & de
venim. La mousche est un animal importun, & le-
quel on chasse avec toutes les peines du monde. Un
homme de sçavoir ne se fait point d’honneur quand
il debat avec les ignorans.
1. See Erasmus, Adagia, 828 (Cicadam ala corripuisti): if you hold a cicada by the wing, it will only chirp more loudly.
2. See Erasmus, Adagia, 2660 (Muscas depellere): driving flies away is a waste of effort as they simply return.
3. Both Ulrich Zasius and Guillaume Budé (Budaeus) were prominent jurisconsultants, contemporaries of Alciato: Zasius worked at the University of Freiburg and notably opposed the reforms of Luther (d. 1536). Budé had a great impact on the study of Roman law and the Greek language in France (d. 1540).
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