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IN MOMENTANEAM
foelicitatem.
Transitory success
Aëriam propter crevisse cucurbita pinum
Dicitur, & grandi luxuriasse coma
Cum ramos complexa, ipsumque egressa cacumen
Se praestare aliis credidit arboribus.
Cui pinus, nimium brevis est haec gloria, nam te
Protinus adveniet, quae male perdat[1] hyems.
A gourd, it is said, grew beside a lofty pine and flourished with abundant foliage. When it had enveloped the branches and grown taller than the tree-top, it then thought itself superior to the other trees. The pine said to it: This glory is exceedingly brief. For winter will shortly come which will utterly destroy you.
1. Textual variant: perdet.
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- trees: pine (+ stem, trunk) [25G3(PINE)(+21)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- plants and herbs (with NAME) (+ bearing fruit) [25G4(GOURD)(+34)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- plants and herbs (with NAME) (+ other characteristics of plant growth) [25G4(GOURD)(+39)(CLIMBING)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Fruitfulness, Fertility, Fecundity; 'Fecondit…' (Ripa) [58A3] Search | Browse Iconclass
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- winter, 'Hyems'; 'Inverno' (Ripa) [23D41] Search | Browse Iconclass
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- flowers, blossom, blossoming [25G(+32)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Turn of Fate, Wheel of Fortune (+ emblematical representation of concept) [54F121(+4)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Short Felicity; 'Felicità breve' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept) [56B22(+4)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Honour, Glory; 'Ampiezza della Gloria', 'Gloria', 'Gloria de prencipi', 'Gloria & Honore', 'Honore', 'Sublimatà della Gloria' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept) [59B31(+4)] Search | Browse Iconclass
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