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IUSTA ULTIO.

Just revenge

Emblema 171

A bird on the branch of a tree holding a scorpion in its beak.
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Raptabat volucres captum pede corvus in auras
Scorpion, audaci praemia parta gulae.
Ast ille infuso sensim[1] per membra veneno
Raptorem in stygias compulit ultor aquas.
O risu res digna. aliis qui fata parabat,
Ipse perit, propriis subcubuitque dolis.[2]

A raven was carrying off into the flying winds a scorpion gripped in its talons, a prize won for its audacious gullet. But the scorpion, injecting its poison drop by drop through the raven’s limbs, despatched the predator to the waters of the Styx and so took its revenge. - What a laughable thing! The one who was preparing death for others himself perishes and has succumbed to his own wiles.

Notes:

1.  Corrected by hand in the Glasgow copy.

2.  This is a fairly free translation of Anthologia graeca 9.339. See Erasmus, Adagia 58, Cornix scorpium, where the Greek epigram is again translated.

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Juste vengeance.

LXXIIII.

Le Scorpion prins du Corbeau,
Et emporté pour son manger,
Le picqua de queuë tout beau,
Luy donnant de mort le danger.
Ainsi a sceu son mal venger.
Où les lecteurs prudents comprennent,

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A crow with a scorpion in its beak.
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Que quand fortune veut changer,
Bien souvent les preneurs se prennent.[1]

commentaires.

Le corbeau, oiseau devorant & larron, est tous-
jours apres à recercher des charongnes & autre proye
qu’il puisse devorer. Trouvant donc un scorpion, il le
print avec ses ongles crochues. Mais ce scorpion, beste
tresvenimeuse, picqua son preneur avec sa queue, si
qu’apres est devenu fort bouffi & enflé, il luy con-
vint mourir, & fut le preneur pris & vaincu, voire
esteinct. On void souvent advenir, que ceux qui dres-
sent des embusches aux autres, tombent eux mesmes
dans le fossé.

Notes:

1.  This is a fairly free translation of Anthologia graeca 9.339. See Erasmus, Adagia 58, Cornix scorpium, where the Greek epigram is again translated.

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