
Tempore cuncta mitiora.
All things grow better with time.
Praeteriens quidam vites, nondumque calore
Maturum arripiens gustat, damnatque racemum.
Quinetiam pedibus contrivit, nullus ut inde
Austero imbueret succo sua labra viator.
Iudicium pravum est hominum, nec tempora norunt
Expectare, minùs cupiunt subiisse labores.
Ardua sunt aditu primò, quae pulchra fatemur,
Tempore sed fiunt opera, & pòst mitia cuncta.
Sed refugit penitus botrum formosa puella,
Casta & ἄοινος enim, sidus nec palmiti amicum est.
A man, walking by some vines, tore off a bunch not yet ripened by the heat, and tasting it, declared it bad. He even crushed it under foot, so that no traveller should stain his lips with such sour juice. But the judgement of men is biased, and they do not know how to wait for time’s fullness; even less do they wish to undertake labours. The things we say are beautiful are hard at first, but they are made with the help of time, and later, are all sweet. But the beautiful girl flees the grape altogether, for she is chaste and aoinos [wineless] and the constellation is not friendly to the wine-shoot.
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- adolescent, young woman, maiden (+ nude human being) [31D13(+89)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- adult man [31D14] Search | Browse Iconclass
- adult woman [31D15] Search | Browse Iconclass
- alchemistic symbols [49E392] Search | Browse Iconclass
- arm held downwards [31A2515] Search | Browse Iconclass
- arm held downwards (+ indicating, pointing at) [31A2515(+931)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- arm or hand held in front of the body (+ holding something) [31A2516(+933)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- arm or hand held in front of the chest [31A25161] Search | Browse Iconclass
- arm stretched forward (+ reaching, handing, giving) [31A2512(+9341)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- arm stretched sidewards (+ reaching for somebody or something, seizing something, touching) [31A2513(+934)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- astrological signs and symbols [14C] Search | Browse Iconclass
- bunch of grapes [47I4222] Search | Browse Iconclass
- coast [25H13] Search | Browse Iconclass
- façade (of house or building) [41A31] Search | Browse Iconclass
- index finger forwards, pointing, indicating [31A25552] Search | Browse Iconclass
- sailing-ship, sailing-boat [46C24] Search | Browse Iconclass
- sea (seascape) [25H23] Search | Browse Iconclass
- signboard [46B354] Search | Browse Iconclass
- sitting or standing on clouds - AA - female human figure [31AA27631] Search | Browse Iconclass
- standing on one leg, the other leg held sideways - AA - female human figure [31AA2624] Search | Browse Iconclass
- trampling, treading, stamping on someone or something [31A2726] Search | Browse Iconclass
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- Virgo (zodiacal sign of August) [23O33] Search | Browse Iconclass
- waning moon, i.e. facing this way ( [24B3] Search | Browse Iconclass
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- 'Trionfo del Tempo', 'Triumphus Temporis'; 'Carro del Tempo' (Ripa) [43A4315] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Beauty; 'Bellezza' (Ripa) [51D4] Search | Browse Iconclass
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- Industriousness, Assiduity; 'Assiduità', 'Industria', 'Zelo' (Ripa) [54A11] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Judgement, Discrimination; 'Giuditio' (Ripa) [52A52] Search | Browse Iconclass
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- wine ~ alcoholic drinks [41C711] Search | Browse Iconclass
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