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ABIES.
The fir tree
Emblema. 200.
Apta fretis Abies in montibus editur[1] altis:
Est & in adversis maxima commoditas.[2]
The fir tree that is fit to sail the sea grows high up on the hills. Even in hard circumstances, there is great advantage to be found.
1. Corrected from the Errata.
2. This is because it grows strong by withstanding the gales and harsh weather. Contrast Anthologia Graeca, 9.30ff, 105, and the much-translated 376 for an opposing view of the fir tree: “how can the fir, storm-tossed while growing on land, resist the gales at sea?” 9.31 was translated by Alciato (Selecta epigrammata, p. 98).
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Le saulx.[1]
Le Saulx fruyct-perd, nommé Homere divin,[2]
Notant ceulx la qui point ne beuvent vin.
Homere souverain Poete, ha par propre epithete
appellé le Saulx fruict perd, pource
qu’il ne porte point
de fruyct, & croist en l’eau, ou pres de l’eau. Par cela
signifiant, que les beuveurs d’eau sont infructueux de
corps, ou d’esprit: mesme que la semence
du Saulx
faict perdre chaleur naturelle, & puissance d’engendrer.
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