
Οὐκ ἔστι μιάσματος γῆρας.
Sin does not age
Ad Petrum Ramum.[1]
Encependant qu’Aenee au rivage de le’au [=l’eau]
Alloit sacrifiant à Jupin un taureau
Les rameaux recueillis un presage donnerent
Par l’admirable effect du sang qu’ils degoutterent.[2]
Ainsi fut descouvert le malheureux peché
Du Roy des Thraciens,[3] & le tombeau caché
Du pauvre Polydore: ainsi le meschant oeuvre
Par le temps & le lieu en la fin de se desceuvre.
Car encor’ qu’on le taise on void pourtant les bois
Et les pierres aussi qui nous servent de voix. Link to an image of this page [O6v p220]Le prestre Macaree[4] avoit par un outrage
Violé pauvrement le debvoir d’hostelage:
Mais la vengeance apres tomba sur ses enfans:
Car un mauvais vouloir est puni par le temps.
La peine le poursuit, & comme une furie
Elle va bourrelant le reste de la vie.
Et mesme apres la mort le juste jugement
Du grand juge Minos ne manque nullement.
Toutesfois il vaut mieux quand on a fait offense
Long temps avant mourir en avoir repentance.
1. Pierre de la Ramée: French humanist, logician and educational reformer, founder of Ramism (d. 1572).
2. The story of the bleeding bush is from Vergil, Aeneid, book 3.
3. Polymestor, King of the Thracians, was entrusted with the safety of Polydorus, son of Priam of Troy (and a large amount of treasure), but he killed him for the treasure, and threw his body into the sea. His body was afterwards washed upon the coast, where it was found and recognised by his mother Hecabe, who together with other Trojan captives took vengeance upon Polymestor by killing his two children, and putting out his eyes. (Euripides, Hecuba; Vergil, Aeneid, 3.49.
4. Macareus the Mitylenian was a priest of Bacchus who was entrusted with a large amount of a stranger’s gold, only to murder him when the stranger returned, and buried him in the temple (hoping the gods wouldn’t see). His sons were then involved in a temple sacrifice accident, and killed, as the body of the stranger was revealed. Aelian, Varia historia, 13.2.
5. NB: Page no. wrongly printed as 218
Related Emblems
Iconclass Keywords
Relating to the image:
- (story of) Aeneas [96C(AENEAS)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- adult man (+ two persons) [31D14(+72)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- arm held downwards - AA - both arms or hands [31AA2515] Search | Browse Iconclass
- arm stretched forward - AA - both arms or hands (+ reaching for somebody or something, seizing something, touching) [31AA2512(+934)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- arm stretched sidewards (+ holding something) [31A2513(+933)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- armour [45C22] Search | Browse Iconclass
- beard [31A534] Search | Browse Iconclass
- blood [31A22611] Search | Browse Iconclass
- both legs straight (+ lying) [31A2611(+56)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- crime [44G51] Search | Browse Iconclass
- criminal law; punishment [44G3] Search | Browse Iconclass
- discovery of tomb [42E442] Search | Browse Iconclass
- effigy, 'gisant'(portrait-figure on closed coffin or in 'castrum doloris'), transi [42E351] Search | Browse Iconclass
- farm or solitary house in landscape [25I3] Search | Browse Iconclass
- fire (one of the four elements) [21C] Search | Browse Iconclass
- flame [41B121] Search | Browse Iconclass
- grave, tomb [4.2E+032] Search | Browse Iconclass
- groups of trees [25G11] Search | Browse Iconclass
- hacking and thrusting weapons: sword [45C13(SWORD)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- hand on the hip (+ holding something) [31A2518(+933)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- head turned to the left [31A2421] Search | Browse Iconclass
- helmet [45C221] Search | Browse Iconclass
- lying figure [31A236] Search | Browse Iconclass
- man (showing himself) undressed, quasi-nude [41D91] Search | Browse Iconclass
- mountains [25H11] Search | Browse Iconclass
- one leg in front of the other (+ leaning) [31A2621(+52)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- shrubs: myrtle (+ branch, stick) [25G31(MYRTLE)(+22)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- smoke [41B162] Search | Browse Iconclass
- squatting, crouching figure [31A234] Search | Browse Iconclass
- standing, leaning, sitting or lying with legs apart (+ standing) [31A26114(+51)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- stay of Aeneas on Thrace: miracle of the bleeding bush on Polydorus' grave; the spirit of Polydorus advises Aeneas to flee [96B12] Search | Browse Iconclass
- the corpse [31000] Search | Browse Iconclass
Relating to the text:
- (story of) Jupiter (Zeus) [92B1] Search | Browse Iconclass
- blood-revenge, vendetta [44G82] Search | Browse Iconclass
- boulder, stone [25H1124] Search | Browse Iconclass
- bull [47I2111] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Compunction, Remorse; 'Compuntione' (Ripa) [57A42] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Evasion of Duty, Dereliction of Duty [57AA2] Search | Browse Iconclass
- forest, wood [25H15] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Furies, Dirae (Erinyes), Eumenides; 'Furie' (Ripa) [92N3] Search | Browse Iconclass
- historical person (with NAME) other representations to which the NAME of a historical person may be attached (with NAME of person) [61B2(RAMÉ. Pierre de la)3] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Hospitality; 'Hospitalità' (Ripa) [59A5] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Minos (as judge of Hades) [93E52] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Mortality, Extinction of Life [58BB1] Search | Browse Iconclass
- penitence, repentance; 'Penitenza', 'Pentimento', 'Pentimento de'peccati', 'Purgatione de peccati' (Ripa) [11Q12] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Punishment; 'Castigo', 'Pena', 'Punitione' (Ripa) [57BB13] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Revenge, Requital, Retaliation; 'Vendetta' (Ripa) [57AA741] Search | Browse Iconclass
- sacrifice ~ Roman religion [12F212] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Secrecy, Latency, Concealment; 'Secretezza' (Ripa) [52DD1] Search | Browse Iconclass
- the Greek heroic legends (II): heroes (with NAME) [95A(MACAREUS)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Time revealing Truth; Time carrying Truth aloft [23A41] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Vice, Evil, Sin; 'Peccato' (Ripa) [11N1] Search | Browse Iconclass
- voice [31B62350] Search | Browse Iconclass
Hint: You can turn translations and name underlining on or off using the preferences page.