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Il fault oster Paresse.
APOSTROPHE.
Quiconque oyseux vis au jour la journée[1]
(Pythagoras defense en ha donnée)
Leve toy doncque: metz à labeur la main,
Affin d’avoir vivre pour l’endemain.
Paresse est à fuyr, qui ne regarde que le prae-
sent, & Diligence est à suyvir, qui pourvoit à l’avenir.
1. This saying, which became a proverbial expression of idleness, is quoted in various ancient sources (e.g. Plutarch, De Iside et Osiride10). A bushel was a day’s ration of corn, and ‘to sit on the bushel-box’ (a container holding a bushel measure, and convenient in size for sitting on) meant to be idle and improvident, leaving tomorrow to take care of itself, since today was provided for.
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- adult man (+ two persons) [31D14(+72)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- arm held downwards - AA - both arms or hands [31AA2515] Search | Browse Iconclass
- arm or hand held in front of the body [31A2516] Search | Browse Iconclass
- arm stretched sidewards [31A2513] Search | Browse Iconclass
- boulder, stone [25H1124] Search | Browse Iconclass
- clothed in rags (+ men's clothes) [41D29(+81)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- clothing for the upper part of the body (+ men's clothes) [41D223(+81)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- gear for legs and feet (+ men's clothes) [41D233(+81)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- groups of birds (+ flying animal(s)) [25F31(+5262)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- groups of trees [25G11] Search | Browse Iconclass
- head bent forward; bowing [31A244] Search | Browse Iconclass
- head turned to the right [31A2422] Search | Browse Iconclass
- head-gear (+ men's clothes) [41D221(+81)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- looking downwards [31B6212] Search | Browse Iconclass
- one leg in front of the other (+ sitting) [31A2621(+53)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- rural housing, e.g. country-house, villa, cottage [41A16] Search | Browse Iconclass
- sitting on an elevation [31A2352] Search | Browse Iconclass
- sitting on the ground [31A2351] Search | Browse Iconclass
- sitting with arms or elbows on the knees (+ variant) [31A2353(+0)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- standing, leaning, sitting or lying with legs crossed (+ sitting) [31A2627(+53)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- trousers, breeches (+ men's clothes) [41D231(+81)] Search | Browse Iconclass
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- Idleness; 'Otio' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept) [54DD2(+4)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Industriousness, Assiduity; 'Assiduità', 'Industria', 'Zelo' (Ripa) [54A11] Search | Browse Iconclass
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- Pythagoras, the philosopher representations to which the NAME of a person from classical history may be attached [98B(PYTHAGORAS)3] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Sloth, Indolence, 'Acedia', 'Desidia'; 'Accidia' (Ripa) ~ personification of one of the Seven Deadly Sins [11N37] Search | Browse Iconclass
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