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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.
1. See Quintilian (Fabius Quintilianus), Institutio oratoria, 1.3.3: “the precocious type of intellect never easily comes to fruition”.
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Le coin.
XXXVI.
Solon[1] veut que le coin à manger on presente
A la nouvelle espouse, à cause que plaisante
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Telle viande est en bouche, estomach, & haleine,
Ce qui les mariés à vraye
amour ameine.
Commentaires.
Les mariés doyvent tellement confire tous leurs
dits & leurs faicts, que jamais il ne puisse advenir
entre eux aucun mauvais mesnage.
C’est pourquoy
Solon commandoit à l’espouse, qu’elle mangeast un
coin avant de coucher avec son mari la premiere
nuict: à cause que ce premier plaisir, qui se recueille
de la voix & de la bouche, doit estre doux et bien
assaisonné.
1. See Plutarch, Coniugalia praecepta, Moralia 138 D.
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