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In fertilitatem[1] sibi ipsi damnosam.
Fruitfulness bringing its own destruction
Ludibrium pueris lapides iacientibus, hoc me
In trivio posuit rustica cura nucem.
Quae laceris ramis perstrictoque ardua libro,
Certatim fundis per latus omne petor.
Quid sterili posset contingere turpius? eheu,
Infoelix fructus in mea damna fero.[2]
A countryman’s care placed me, a nut tree, at this cross-roads, where I am the butt of stone-throwing boys. I have grown tall, but my branches are broken, my bark bruised, I am attacked with sling-stones, competing on every side. What worse fate could befall a barren tree? Alas, cursed tree that I am, I bear fruit to my own destruction.
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Hide related emblems- Declaracion magistral sobre las Emblemas de Andres Alciato (1615), Najera: INFAECUNDITATEM sibi ipsi damnosam. | Open in other pane
- Emblemata (1621), Padua: In foecunditatem sibi ipsi damnosam. | Open in other pane
- Emblematum liber (28th February, 1531), Augsburg: IN FERTILITATEM SIBI IPSI DAMNOSAM. | Open in other pane
- Emblematum liber (6th April, 1531), Augsburg: IN FERTILITATEM SIBI ipsi damnosam. | Open in other pane
- Emblematum liber (1534), Augsburg: IN FERTILITATEM SIBI IPSI DAMNOSAM. | Open in other pane
- Les Emblemes (1539), Paris: In fertilitatem sibi ipsi damnosam. Fertilite dommageable. | Open in other pane
- Les Emblemes (1542), Paris: In fertilitatem sibi ipsi damnosam. Fertilite dommageable. | Open in other pane
- Emblematum libellus (1542), Paris: In fertilitatem sibi ipsi damnosam. Fruchbarkeyt yer selbs schedlich. | Open in other pane
- Los Emblemas (1549), Lyon: Que à buen serviçio mal galardon. | Open in other pane
- Emblemata (1550), Lyon: In foecunditatem sibi ipsi damnosam. | Open in other pane
- Emblemata (1551), Lyon: In foecunditatem sibi ipsi damnosam. | Open in other pane
- Emblematum libri II (Stockhamer) (1556), Lyon: In fertilitatem sibi ipsi damnosam. | Open in other pane
- Toutes les emblemes (1558), Lyon: De fertilité à soy dommageable. | Open in other pane
- Liber emblematum ... Kunstbuch (1567), Franckfurt am Main: In foecunditatem sibi ipsi damnosam. Von der Fruchtbarkeit so ir selbs schedlich. | Open in other pane
- Emblemata (1591), Leiden: In foecunditatem sibiipsi damnosam. | Open in other pane
- Diverse imprese (1551), Lyon: Nella fecondità a se medesima dannosa. | Open in other pane
- Livret des emblemes (1536), Paris: In fertilitatem sibi ipsi damnosam. Fertilite dommageable. | Open in other pane
- Emblemes (1549), Lyons: De fertilité à soy dommageable. | Open in other pane
- Emblemata / Les emblemes (1584), Paris: In fecunditatem sibi ipsi damnosam. Sur la fecondité qui est à soy prejudiciable. | Open in other pane
- Les emblemes (1615), Geneva/Cologny: Fertilité dommageable. | Open in other pane
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- fruits: nuts [25G21(WALNUTS)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- trees (with NAME) (+ stem, trunk) [25G3(WALNUT-TREE)(+21)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- arm raised upward (+ holding something) [31A2511(+933)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- one leg in front of the other (+ standing) [31A2621(+51)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- jumping up [31A2721] Search | Browse Iconclass
- looking upwards [31B6211] Search | Browse Iconclass
- child (+ three persons) [31D112(+73)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- boy (child between toddler and youth) [31D11221] Search | Browse Iconclass
- dress, gown (+ children's clothes) [41D211(+83)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- barefoot [41D2339] Search | Browse Iconclass
- the naughty child [42B832] Search | Browse Iconclass
- sports, games and physical performances (+ requirements, necessaries ~ sports and games) [43C(+4)(STICK)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- child with plant (games and plays) (+ variant) [43C735(+0)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- vandalism (mischief-making play) [43C755] Search | Browse Iconclass
- casting weapons (with NAME) [45C11(SLING)] Search | Browse Iconclass
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