Ignavi.

Good for nothing

Ignavi ardeolam stellarem[1] effingere servi
Et studia, & mores, fabula prisca fuit.
Quae famulum Asteriam[2] volucris sumpsisse figuram
Est commenta fides sit penes historicos.
Degener hic veluti qui cevet in aëre falco est,
Dictus ab antiquis vatibus ardelio.[3]

There was an old story to the effect that the little starred heron displays the activities and character of a good-for-nothing slave, a story which alleged that the slave Asterias took the form of a bird. Let the [natural] historians vouch for this. This sort of despicable person is like the kestrel quivering in one place in the air, a person called a fussing busybody by the ancient poets.

IN vetere quadam fabula inductus erat servus a-
liquis fatuus, & nihil non satagens, qui asteriae, vel
ardeolae stellatae figuram repraesentare conaretur, ut
mores & conatus ardelionum exprimeret. Ii satis
movent sese, sed nihil unquam promovent, nihil-
que agunt, sed tantum satagunt, ad modum falconis
degeneris & adulterini, qui sit tantùm caeventis in
aere motus. Ii vulgato nomine Ardeliones appellan-
tur: quo hominum genere nullum impudentius, aut  ^[M]
ineptius.