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Doctos doctis obloqui nefas esse.
It is wicked for scholars to wrangle with other scholars
XCIX.
Quid rapis heu Progne vocalem saeva Cicadam,
Pignoribusque tuis fercula dira paras?[1]
Ac stridula stridulam[2], vernam verna, hospita laedis
Hospitam, & aligeram penniger ales avem?
Ergo abice hanc praedam, nam musica pectora summum est,
Alterum ab alterius dente perire nefas.
Alas, Procne, why, cruel bird, do you sieze on the melodious cicada and prepare a dreadful banquet for your young? A whistler yourself, you harm the shrill singer; a summer visitor, you hurt another fine-weather caller; a guest, you harm a guest; a feathered bird, you hurt another winged creature. So let this prize go. It is the greatest sin for hearts devoted to the Muses to perish by one another’s tooth.
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Scavant ne doibt contre sca-
vant parler.
XCIX.
Tu as tort petit Arondelle,
De prandre ceste jolye beste,
Que nous appellons Saulterelle,
Faisant comme toy bruit & feste,
Comme toy est en printemps preste,
Comme toy vole sans nuysance.
Musique tient train si honneste:
Que l’ung jamais l’aultre ne offence.
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- collapsing building [47G91] Search | Browse Iconclass
- insects: cicada (+ dying animal; death of animal; dead animal) [25F711(CICADA)(+63)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- ruin of a building ~ architecture [48C149] Search | Browse Iconclass
- song-birds: swallow (+ animal with prey) [25F32(SWALLOW)(+452)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- song-birds: swallow (+ feeding and care of young) [25F32(SWALLOW)(+42)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- song-birds: swallow (+ nest, den, burrow) [25F32(SWALLOW)(+421)] Search | Browse Iconclass
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- (story of the) Muses; 'Muse' (Ripa) [92D4] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Denial, Negation [52CC2] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Disagreement, Discord; 'Discordia' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept) [54EE31(+4):51B3(+4)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- discussion, dialogue, dispute ~ scholar, philosopher [49C40] Search | Browse Iconclass
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- Philomela, Procne and Tereus changed into nightingale, swallow, hoopoe (or hawk): Tereus seeks to kill Philomela and Procne for having slain his son; in their flight the two sisters are changed into a nightingale and a swallow; Tereus is changed into a ho [97DD23] Search | Browse Iconclass
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