Vinum medicina dolori.

Ecce mariti abitum queritur deserta Ariadne,
Sed Bacchi auxilio sospita facta fuit:
Scilicet expellunt animo bona vina dolorem,
Gaudiaque ex luctu nata videre licet.

De wijn verdrijft droefheyt.

Ariadne ziet op strandt haer lichte Lief ontvluchten,
Zy schreydt en klaaght met recht om haer bedroefde schijn,
Maer Bacchus diese ziet en deerelijc hoort zuchtē,
Vertroost haar, en verdrijft haar droefheyt met de wijn.

Le vin guarit tristesse.

Ariadne gisoit regrettant au rivage,
La fuite de Thesé son infidele amant.
Mais Bacchus lors la mer en c'est endroit fendant,
La prent en son vaisseau, & sa douleur soulage:
Ainsi le vin estaint la douleur en nos cœurs,
Et nous fàict oublier, & essuier nos pleurs.

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Wine is medicine for pain.

Here Ariadne, abandoned, laments that her husband has left her.
But with Bacchus' help she recovered.
For indeed, good wines drive pain from the heart.
Instead of sorrow you can see the birth of joys.

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Bacchus consoling Ariadne on the beach of Naxos

beasts of prey, predatory animals: leopard (+ animals as attributes) [25F23(LEOPARD)(+13)]
beasts of prey, predatory animals: leopard (+ animal(s) pulling, drawing something) [25F23(LEOPARD)(+5247)]
beasts of prey, predatory animals: tiger (+ skin, fleece, hide, fur, leather) [25F23(TIGER)(+351)]
sea (seascape) [25H23]
kneeling figure - AA - female human figure [31AA233]
hands folded - AA - female human figure [31AA2522]
looking upwards [31B6211]
chariot, triumphal car [43A421]
sailing-ship, sailing-boat (+ departure; weighing anchor) [46C24(+62)]
bunch of grapes [47I4222]
Heartache, Heart-break; 'Affanno', 'Cordoglio' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept) [56BB13(+4)]
Consolation (+ emblematical representation of concept) [56BB19(+4)]
'Tormento d'amore' (Ripa) (+ 'exemplum', representation of exemplary (historical) event) [56F2522(+5)]
proverbs, sayings, etc. (with TEXT) [86(VINUM MEDECINA DOLORI)]
Bacchus finds Ariadne on Naxos [92L1211]
attributes of Bacchus: vine [92L18(VINE)]
Ariadne left behind on the island of Naxos [95B(ARIADNE)61]

Vinum medicina dolori [22]

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