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La cholere.

LXX.

Les anciens ont nommé la queuë du lion
Alce, avec laquelle il se bat & flagelle:
Et ainsi flagellé, il entre en fureur telle,
Qu’il se monstre indomptable, & sans compassion.

Commentaires.

Pline dit, que la queuë du lion, que les Grecs nom-
ment alce, est un vray indice de sa cholere: comme les
oreilles sont de celle du cheval. Quand il ne remue
point sa queuë (ce qui ne se void guieres souvent) il
est beaucoup plus paisible & clement. Quand il com-
mence à se cholerer, il bat premierement sa queuë,
avec sadite queuë: puis en se battant le dos, il devient
beaucoup plus furieux. La cholere est une vraye ra-
ge & forcenerie, quoy que de peu de duree. Nous de-
vons donc refrener l’impetuosité d’icelle, evitans tou-
tes les occasions qui nous y peuvent faire entrer. Car
c’est une passion qui transporte tellement l’homme
Link to an image of this page  Link to an image of this page  [P2v p228] hors de soy, qu’elle le transforme en beste brute.
Quand nous l’aurons peu surmonter, nous nous pour-
rons vanter d’avoir vaincu un tresgrand & tres-
pernicieux ennemi.



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    EMBLEMA CXLII.

    Ira.

    Rage.

    Alcaeam veteres caudam dixere Leonis,
    Qua stimulante iras concipit ille graves.
    Lutea cum surgit bilis, crudescit & atro
    Felle dolor, furias excitat indomitas.[1]

    The ancients called the lion’s tail alcaea, for under its stimulus he takes on dreadful fury. When the yellow bile rises and his temper grows savage with the black gall, the tail incites his indomitable rage.

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    Das CXLII.

    Zorn.

    Die alten haben sLöwen Schwantz
    Alceam reitz sterck gnennet gantz
    Mit welchem so er sich selbs schlecht
    Zu grossem zorn er wirt bewegt
    Wann die grün gel Gall auffsteign thut
    Erneuwerts den schmertzen mit unmuth
    Erwegt gantz unberd und ungstumb
    Die wütend unsinnigkeit thumb.

    Notes:

    1.  The Greek word ἀλκαία was supposedly derived from ἀλκή ‘strength’ (see emblem 4, n.3, [A67a004]). The Etymologicum Magnum, an ancient Greek lexicon, defines ἀλκαία as ‘properly the tail of the lion, because it urges him on to strength (ἀλκή)’. Pliny, Natural History, 8.16.49, describes how the lion’s tail lashes with increasing fury and spurs him on. See also Aelian, De natura animalium, 5.39.



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