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EMBLEMA CLXIX [=168] .
In sordidos.
Disgusting people
Quae rostro (clystere velut) sibi proluit alvum
Ibis, Niliacis cognita littoribus,[1]
Transiit opprobrii in nomen: quo Publius hostem
Naso suum appellat, Battiadesque suum.[2]
The ibis, a bird familiar on the banks of the Nile, washes out its bowels using its beak like a syringe. ‘Ibis’ has become a term of insult. Publius Naso [Ovid] called his enemy Ibis; and the inhabitant of Battus’ town did the same.
Das CLXIX [=168] .
Wider die Garstigen.
Der Vogel Ibis so bekannt
Ist am Nil in Egyptenlandt
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Der sich mit seim Schnabel clystiert
Und auß seim Leib den unflat führt
Deß Nam ist worden zu einr schmach
Dann also nennt sein Feind darnach
Der Poet Publius Naso
Auch Batiades sein also.
1. For this information about the ibis, see Aelian, De natura animalium, 2.35; Cicero, De natura deorum, 2.126; Pliny, Natural History, 8.41.97.
2. Battiades, ‘the inhabitant of Battus’ town’, i.e. the poet Callimachus, a native of Cyrene, a town founded by Battus. Ovid refers to Callimachus’ invective (not now extant) in his own poem Ibis, 53ff.
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