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EMBLEMA CXII [=207] .
Morus.
The mulberry
Serior at Morus nunquam 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.
Das CCXII [=207] .
Maulberbaum.
Der Maulberbaum aber nit ehe
Sein prossen stost es sey nitmehe
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Ein kelt vorhanden, billich er klug
Genannt wirt und Morus on fug.
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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EMBLEMA CCXVII [=212] .
Hedera.
Ivy
Haudquaquam arescens hedere est arbuscula Cisso[1],
Quae puero Bacchum dona dedisse ferunt:
Errabunda, procax, auratis fulva corymbis,
Exterius viridis, caetera pallor habet.
Hinc aptis vates cingunt sua tempora sertis:[2]
Pallescunt studiis, laus diuturna viret.
There is a bushy plant which never withers, the ivy which Bacchus, they say, gave as a gift to the boy Cissos. It goes where it will, uncontrollable; tawny where the golden berry-clusters hang; green on the outside but pale everywhere else. Poets use it to wreathe their brows with garlands that fit them well - poets are pale with study, but their praise remains green for ever.
Das CCXVII [=212] .
Epheuw.
Epheuw ist ein gsteud das mit nicht
Verdorret, das wie ich bin bricht
Bacchus dem Knaben Cisso sol
Zu eim gschenck geben hon ein mal
Verwendt hin und her es sich flucht
Und tregt oben zu Goldgelb zucht
Ausserthalb ist es grün sunst doch
Hat es die gelbe Farbe noch
Auß diesem werden Krentz bereit
Damit ziert man die glehrte Leut
Die seind von studieren stäts bleich
Ir lob aber allzeit grunt reich.
1. Κισσός is the Greek word for ‘ivy’. For the story of Cissos, beloved of Bacchus, and his transformation into the ivy, see Nonnus, Dionysiaca, 12.188ff.
2. vates cingunt sua tempora, ‘Poets use it to wreathe their brows’. See Pliny, Natural History, 16.62.147: poets use the species with yellow berries for garlands.
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