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Morus.
The mulberry
Serior at Morus nunquām nisi frigore lapso
Germinat:[1] & sapiens nomina falsa[2] gerit.
On the other hand, the mulberry is late, and never until the frost is past does it shoot; though wise, it bears a false name.
1. See Pliny, Natural History, 16.25.102: “the mulberry is the last of domesticated trees to shoot, and only does so when the frosts are over; for that reason it is called the wisest of trees”.
2. nomina falsa, ‘a false name’, reference to a supposed ‘etymology by opposites’: Latin morus ‘mulberry’ was equated with Greek μῶρος ‘fool’, but the tree was considered wise: see note 1.
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El Almendro.
TERCETO.
Desque te vi tan pręsto estar florido,
Los resabidos niņos aborrezco,
Que se que avrā su fruto de yr
perdido.[1]
1. See Quintilian, Institutio oratoria, 1.3.3: ‘the precocious type of intellect never easily comes to fruition’.
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