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AMOR FILIORUM.
Love of one’s children
Emblema. 192.
Ante diem bernam [=vernam]
boreali cana palumbes
Frigore nidificat, praecoqua & ova fovet.
Mollius & pulli ut iaceant, sibi vellicat alas,
Queis nuda hiberno deficit ipsa gelu.[1]
Ecquid Colchi pudet, vel te Procne improba? mortem
Cum volucris propriae prolis amore subit?[2]
Before the day of spring, the wood-pigeon, all white with winter snow, builds her nest and cherishes her premature eggs. To make her chicks lie more softly, she plucks her own wing-feathers, and stripped of them, she herself perishes from the wintry frost. Woman of Colchis, do you feel any shame? Or you, heartless Procne? - when a bird submits to death out of love for her own off-spring.
1. This is based on Anthologia graeca 9.95.
2. Both Medea (the woman of Colchis) and Procne killed their own children. They are the legendary infamous child-killers. See [A15a070] n. for Procne, [A15a054] n. for Medea.
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