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In desciscentes.

On those who turn traitor

EMBLEMA CXL.

Goat kicking over a jug of milk.
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Quod fine egregios turpi maculaveris orsus,
In noxamque tuum verteris officium;
Fecisti, quod capra, sui mulctralia lactis
Cùm ferit, & proprias calce profundit opes.[1]

Because you have spoilt your fine beginnings with a shameful end and turned your service into harm, you have done what the she-goat does when she kicks the bucket that holds her milk and with her hoof squanders her own riches.

Notes:

1.  See Erasmus, Adagia, 920 (Capra Syria), where the goat - of Syros, in the Aegean, not Scyros - is wild.

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