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Eloquence est plus excellente que force.[1]
PROBLEME.
Masse en main dextre, en senestre arc cornu,
Et du Lyon la peau couvrant corps nu,
C’est d’Hercules la forme, Mais tel art
Pas ne convient: qu’il soit chaulve, & vieillard.
La langue aussi de chainetes persée,
D’ond par l’oreille attraict gent, non forcée, Link to an image of this page [O7v p222]Est ce pourtant que par faconde voix,
Et non par force aulx peuples donna loix?
Armes font place aux lettres. Car des coeurs
(Tant soient ilz durs) Eloquens sont vinqueurs.
C’est la description Lucianicque de Hercules le
Francois , Par laquelle estoit figuré, que Hercules
avoit tant de peuples mis en son obeissance, & tant
de monstres, & tyrans surmontéz par vive eloquen
ce, & savoir legitime, & constitution de justes loix,
Toutes lesquelles choses les Graecz hont depuys
deguisées en faictz d’armes, & appropriées à leur
Hercules Graec, filz d’Alcmena.
1. This epigram is closely based on Lucian’s essay, The Gallic Hercules.
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