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Cotonea.
The quince
EMBLEMA CCIII.
Poma novis tribui debere Cydonia nuptis
Dicitur antiquus constituisse Solon.[1]
Grata ori & stomacho cùm sint, ut & halitus illis
Sit suavis, blandus mânet & ore lepos.
Solon of old is said to have ordained that quinces be given to newly-weds, since these are pleasant both to mouth and stomach. As a result their breath is sweet, and winning grace drops from their lips.
1. antiquus...Solon, ‘Solon of old’. See Plutarch, Coniugalia praecepta, Moralia 138 D.
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Le houx.
XXXVII.
Le houx s’esclatte & rompt par sa trop
grand’ durté: [1]
Et le bourgeois se perd par opiniastreté.
Commentaire.
Pericle disoit que les
Beotiens ressembloyent au
houx: car comme les houx se rompent l’un l’autre:
ainsi les Beotiens s’entredeschiroyent les uns les au-
tres. Ce qui se dit des Beotiens, se peut dire à bonnes
enseignes de plusieurs autres, seditieux, ligueurs,
remueurs, & de dur col, lesquels on romproit plu-
stost, que de les faire fleschir ou ployer.
1. Cf. Pliny, Natural History, 16.73.186 (tota ossea est ilex, ‘the holm-oak is entirely bone-like’).
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