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ASTROLOGIE.
La coupe de Nestor.
APOSTROPHE, ET PROBLEME.
Reçoy en don la coupe de Nestor
A double ventre argentin, & cloux d’or,[1] Link to an image of this page [H6r p123]Ou autour sont quatre anses d’or, fort belles,
Et sur chescune, autant de colombelles.
Le vieil Nestor la povoit seul lever:
Quoy par cela veult Homere prouver?
La Coupe, C’est le ciel blanc comme argent:
Estoilles sont les cloux d’or refulgent:
Colombes sont Pleïades, & leur course:[2]
Deux omblicz sont la grande, & petite ourse.
Nestor prudent scet ce par long usage.
Preux font la guerre. Astres cognoist le sage.
Par la Coupe de Nestor ainsi devisée en
Homere, est signifiée Astronomie Art venue
de longue & ancienne observation. Science
de certain conseil, & qui es grandz faictz plus
peut, & vault que force corporelle.
1. Nestor’s bowl is described at Homer, Iliad, 11.632-7. Only Nestor, for all his great age (see Emblem 25. n.4, [FALb025]) could lift it when full. For the interpretation of Nestor’s cup (or mixing bowl) given here, see Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae, 11.487 F ff.
2. The Greek word for ‘doves’ is πελειάδες.
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