![[H O M E : Emblem Project Utrecht]](/static/images/rd-small.gif)
Propterea captivus ductus est populus [37]
Dees Sot sijn honger wel mach boeten en versaên
Aen eeten, wel ghecookt, en lecker versch ghebraên.
Maer siet tantwaetrich aen, gheschildert na het leeven
Spijs, die hem Reuck, noch smaeck, noch voetsel en can geven
T'is te beclaegen, Dat nu alle daach gebuert,
Dat menich Cloecke geest onnut sijn tijt verleurt:
En sijn verstant vergeefs, polijst op ydel droomen
Veracht de Waerheijt, (die hem noodt) met niet te coomen.
Aen eeten, wel ghecookt, en lecker versch ghebraên.
Maer siet tantwaetrich aen, gheschildert na het leeven
Spijs, die hem Reuck, noch smaeck, noch voetsel en can geven
T'is te beclaegen, Dat nu alle daach gebuert,
Dat menich Cloecke geest onnut sijn tijt verleurt:
En sijn verstant vergeefs, polijst op ydel droomen
Veracht de Waerheijt, (die hem noodt) met niet te coomen.
Ce phantastiq a dequoy sustenter
Ses appetits, s'ils estoyent raisonnables:
Mais comme fol s'ayme mieux contenter
De viures peincts, plaisans, non profitables.
On void tels cas auiourd'hui deplorables,
En maints gentils & sublimes espris,
Qui se paissans de mensonges & fables
La verité solide ont en mespris.
Ses appetits, s'ils estoyent raisonnables:
Mais comme fol s'ayme mieux contenter
De viures peincts, plaisans, non profitables.
On void tels cas auiourd'hui deplorables,
En maints gentils & sublimes espris,
Qui se paissans de mensonges & fables
La verité solide ont en mespris.
PROPTEREA CAPTIVVS DVCTVS EST POPVLVS
Translations
|
...
|
|
...
|
|
That is why the people are led away in captivity.
|
|
Oh! Too volatile are the feelings in the plaintive breast.
Because it believes frivolous matters of more use than what is true. Stable wisdom is not taken in by baseless natter, And hunger is not driven away by painted diners. |
Literature
Sources and parallels
References, across this site, to this page:
No references to this emblem or page found.Iconclass
A foolish man turns his back at the real food that is on his table and points at the food that is painted on a wall- landscape with ruins
[25I9]
- sitting figure
[31A235]
- arm raised upward (+ indicating, pointing at)
[31A2511(+931)]
- index finger forwards, pointing, indicating
[31A25552]
- adult man
[31D14]
- chair
[41A721]
- laid table: table-ware, table-decoration, etc.
[41C3]
- foodstuffs; still life of foodstuffs
[41C6]
- art (+ mural painting)
[48(+342)]
- picture, painting (+ mural painting)
[48C514(+342)]
- inscription
[49L8]
- Sluggishness, Inertia; 'Dapocaggine', 'Pigritia' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept)
[54AA11(+4)]
- Inutility, Noxiousness; 'Nocumento', 'Nocumento d'ogni cosa' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept)
[54BB3(+4)]
- proverbs, sayings, etc. (with TEXT)
[86(PROPTEREA CAPTIVUS DUCTUS EST POPULUS)]