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Furor & rabies.
Fury and madness
Emblema lvii.
Ora gerit clypeus rabiosi picta leonis,
Et scriptum in summo margine carmen habet.
Hic hominum est terror, cuius possessor Atrida:
Talia magnanimus signa Agamemno tulit.[1]
The shield bears the painted face of a raging lion, and inscribed upon the upper margin has a verse: ‘This is the terror of men, and the son of Atreus is its possessor’. Haughty Agamemnon bore this symbolic figure.
Link to an image of this page [I11v f83v]AGamemnon clypeum habuit, in quo depictus leo
conspiciebatur: qui clypeus in Olympiae fano per
aliquot tempora pependit, inscriptione etiam adiecta
οὗτος μὲν φόβος ἐστὶ βροτῶν, ὁ δ’ἔχων Ἀγα-
μέμνων.
Terror hic est hominum, quique hanc gerit, est Agamemnon.
Ducum certè ac militum immanitas ac sae-
vitia signis militaribus non rarò arguitur. Quid
enim significant in eiusmodi bellicis stemmatis vul
tures, gryphes, dracones, aquilae, leones, quàm rapa-
citatem, depraedationem, internecionem, terrorem,
& alia longè multa, quae perpetuò sanguinarios bel-
li duces comitantur?
Link to an image of this page [I12r f84r]Fureur & rage.
DAns le rond d’un bouclier un grand Lion pourtrait
Ayant d’un choleré, ou furieux le trait:
Au bord un escriteau en briefs mots peust on lire,
Contenant ce propos, & comme voulant dire,
C’est icy la terreur des hommes: & le nom
Du Prince à qui je fus, estoit Agamemnon.
AGamemnon a heu un bouclier, auquel
se voyoit un lion depeint: lequel bou-
clier demeura pendu par quelque espace de
temps au temple d’Olympie, avec ceste in-
scription, Cestuy est la terreur des mortels:
celuy qui le possede est Agamemnon. La
cruauté des capitaines & gendarmes se re-
marque assez souvent en leurs enseignes &
estendars de guerre. Car qu’est ce que signi-
fient en telles devises & armoires belliques
les Autours, les Grifons, les Dragons, les Ai-
gles, les lions, sinon rapacité, proye, meurtre
terreur, & autres choses semblables qui per-
petuellement accompagnent les capitaines
de guerre?
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Fureur & rage.
XLIX.
Ce bouclier un lion porte plein de fureur,
Le lion, lequel est des humains la terreur:
De ce bouclier estoit
Agamemnon le maistre,
Le plus fort & vaillant qu’aucun autre eust peu estre.[1]
Commentaires.
Anciennement la plus part des Princes & grands
Seigneurs, ne chargeoyent leurs armoiries de chose
qui ressentist sa superbe ou
cruauté: mais l’expedition
de Godefroy de Bouillon en la terre saincte, remplit
les armoiries des Rois & Princes d’Aigles, de Gry-
phons, de Lions, & autres furieux animaux. Le Roy
de France presque seul entre tous retint ses blanches
fleurdelis. Mais, helas! & jadis,
& de nostre siecle,
plusieurs Seigneurs font sentir & experimenter à
leurs peuples la tyrannie & cruauté des animaux
qu’ils portent en leurs armoiries. Peu, ou peut estre,
pas un, n’aspire à acquerir le surnom d’Aristide. Le
bouclier d’Agamemnon a demeuré quelque temps
pendu au temple Olympique.
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