
XXIIII.
STUDIO ET VIGILANTIA.
SI superfluae sollicitudines vituperandae sunt, negligentia
quoque aliud extremum vitium non minorem meretur re-
prehensionem. Vita enim hominis nihil aliud esse debet, quàm
assidua occupatio circa res pias, honestas, & necessarias, tam
publico statui, quàm privato. Inter ea autem quibus sese prae-
clara ingenia debent occupare, Philosophia, liberaliumque
artium scientiae primum locum habere debent: quòd ex iis
comparetur animorum instructio, & eruditio, morum praeci-
pua: quibus rebus nihil est quod meritò praeferri possit. Nam
cùm Philosophiae partes variae sint; una de vita & moribus tra-
ctat: alia creatarum rerum naturam & ordinem docet: tertia
disserit rationibus quid verum & quid falsum sit, quid rectum
aut pravum. Quae singula in se habent satis quod ad benè for-
mandum hominis animum faciat; & delectationem summam
pariat. Tota enim frugifera est, tota utilis, & voluptate plena.
Ea enim hominem primùm ad Dei cultum, tum ad modestiam,
magnitudinemque animi erudit: eademque ab animo, tanquam
ab oculis, caliginem depellit: Talis est Philosophia, cui qui pa-
reat, omne tempus aetatis possit sine molestia degere. At
in ea conquirenda, studio & vigilantia
est opus: assiduo parta labore
venit.

XXIIII.
Iacobo Paschario Medico.[1]
STUDIO ET VIGILANTIA.[2]
Through study/assiduity and vigilance
MAgnificas secum studium & vigilantia laudes
Promovet, armigerae praemia grata Deae.[3]
Quod cristata notat torva super aegide cassis,
Noctuaque aggestos quae premit ungue libros.
Study/assiduity and vigilance bring with them wonderful praise, the pleasing rewards of the armourbearing Goddess. The plumed helmet above the fierce shield denotes this, and the night-owl which presses with its claws (i.e perches) on the books which have been assembled.
1. Jacques Paschaire, humanist and physician to Henri de Navarre (who by 1593 was Henri IV, King of France). Emblem 31 is also dedicated to him ([FBOb031]), as is emblem 34 in Boissard 1588 ([FBOa034]).
2. The Greek text in the pictura is from Menander, Sententiae (Jaekel edition, 1964), Monosticha, 569.
3. Armigera Dea, i.e., Minerva.
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