Otto Vaenius, Amorum emblemata (1608)
Table of contents ↑Amor odit inertes [46]
Translations
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Liefde haat de slomen [cf. Ovidius, Ars amatoria 2, 229] |
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Love hates the sluggish. [cf. Ovidius, Ars amatoria 2, 229] |
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Kijk, de schildpad wordt door een woedende Amor verjaagd omdat hij met te aarzelende pas over de grond kruipt. Amor is energiek
[ongeduldig] en stelt niets uit tot morgen. Want in de Liefde is lang uitstel vaak schadelijk. |
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Look, the tortoise is driven off by furious Amor because it creeps upon the floor with too hesitating step. Amor is impatient
and he does not put off something till tomorrow. For often in Love long delay is harmful. |
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Plautus, Poenulus 504
Niets is erger dan een slome vriend. |
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Plautus, Poenulus 504
There is nothing more annoying than a sluggish friend. |
Sources and parallels
- Tortoise being lashed away: Odit moras [31] (in: Otto Vaenius, Amoris divini emblemata (1615))
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- Use of the tortoise motif (in another context):
Fugiendo, non effugit. [15] (in: Jacob Cats, Sinne- en minnebeelden (1627))
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and Dissidet, quod impar est. [48] (in: Jacob Cats, Sinne- en minnebeelden (1627))
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Parallel for the pictura (here female figures in the frame, background less detailed) and a parallel for some mottoes
(Latin, Italian, French) in: Un Amour frapant une Tortüe (in: Daniel de la Feuille, Devises et emblemes (1691))
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References, across this site, to this page:
- Fugiendo, non effugit. [15] (in: Jacob Cats, Sinne- en minnebeelden (1627))
- Dissidet, quod impar est. [48] (in: Jacob Cats, Sinne- en minnebeelden (1627))
- Un Amour frapant une Tortüe (in: Daniel de la Feuille, Devises et emblemes (1691))
- Odit moras [31] (in: Otto Vaenius, Amoris divini emblemata (1615))