
In victoriam dolo partam.
On victory won by guile
Emblema xlviii.
Aiacis tumulum lachrymis ego perluo Virtus:
Heu misera albentes dilacerata comas!
Scilicet hoc restabat adhuc, ut iudice Graeco[1]
Vincerer: & caussa stet potiore dolus.[2]
I, Virtue, bedew with tears the tomb of Ajax, tearing, alas, in my grief my whitening hairs. This was all it needed - that I should be worsted with a Greek as judge, and that guile should appear to have the better cause.

TRactum id ex Asclepiadis tetrasticho, quod le-
gitur in 3. Graecorum epigrammaton. Conque-
ritur virtus ad Aiacis tumulum sedens quòd Achil-
lis arma non Aiaci, cui justè debebantur, sed Ulyssi
fuerint adiudicata, iniqua Graecorum principum
sententia. Ex quo intelligitur plerósque viros in-
nocentes iniquis iudicum decretis suo iure detur-
bari, vexari, spoliari bonis: dolosos verò & frau-
dulentos contra in honore haberi, valere gratia,
sustentari, frustra dolentibus interea viris bonis.

Sur la victoire gaignée par tromperie.
LAs moy, pauvre Vertu, chetive je repose,
Sur le tombeau d’Ajax que de mes pleurs j’arrose,
Tirant mes blonds cheveux. tant suis pleine d’esmoy:
D’estre jugee ainsi d’un Grec estoit à craindre,
Et cela suffisoit pour m’achever de peindre,
Puisque la fraude & dol l’a gaigné contre moy.
CEcy est prins d’un tetrastique d’Ascle-
piades, que nous trouvons au 3. des Epi-
grammes Grecs. Vertu seant sur le tombeau
d’Ajax, se lamente bien fort, parce que les
armes d’Achilles n’ont esté adjugees à Ajax,
auquel elles estoient justement deuës, mais
à Ulysses par l’inique arrest des Princes
Grecs. Par cecy nous entendons que beau-
coup de gens de bien sont deboutez & fru-
strez de leur droit, sont vexez, & spoliez de
leurs biens par les jugemens iniques qu’en
donnent aucuns mauvais juges: au contrai-
re les trompeurs & rusez sont mis en hon-
neur, sont en credit, sont soustenus, pendant
que les gens de bien se compleignent &
doulent sans y rien gaigner pourtant.
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