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IN EUM, QUI SIBI IPSI DAM
num apparat.
One who brings about his own downfall.
Emblema. 64.
Capra lupum non sponte meo nunc ubere lacto,
Quod malè pastoris provida cura iubet.[1]
Creverit ille simul, mea me post ubera pascet:
Improbitas nullo flectitur obsequio.[2]
I am a goat giving suck against my will - to a wolf. The improvident kindness of the shepherd makes me do this. Once the wolf has grown, after feeding at my teats, he will then eat me. Wickedness is never deterred by services rendered.
1. This is a translation of Anthologia graeca 9.47. For the content cf. Aesop, Fables 313-5.
2. ‘Wickedness is never deterred by services rendered’. See Erasmus, Adagia 1086, Ale luporum catulos.
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