PEDETENTIM.

Propert.
Ac veluti primò taurus detrectat aratra,
Pòst venit assueto mollis ad arua iugo:
Sic primo iuuenes trepidant in amore feroces,
Pòst domiti, mites æqua & iniqua ferunt.

By litle and litle.

The ox will not at first endure to beare the yoke,
But trayned is in tyme to bee therewith enured,
So hee lykwyse that will to loue not bee alured,
Must bee content in tyme that loue shall beare the stroke.

Poco à poco.

Il toro da principio il giogo scuote,
Ma lo sopporta al fin con patienza;
Se da principio l’huom fa resistenza,
Al fin l’Amore dominarlo puote.

Allenxkens.

Den stier en wil in ’t eerst het iock gheenssins ghedoghen/
Maer met der tijdt hy hem daer in ghewennen laet:
Een ionghman fier van moedt in ’t eerst’ wel wederstaet/
Maer werdt na Liefdes wil ten laetsten wel gheboghen.

Petit à petit.

Au premier le Taureau le ioug du dur seruage
Secoue, mais en fin au chignon il le prend.
Encor qu’au premier coup tout homme ne se rend,
A la fin par Amour est fleschi son courage.

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27, pictura:

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Translations

Erasmus, Adagia 2, 1, 2; LB 2, col. 407

Allengs.

Erasmus, Adagia 2, 1, 2; LB 2, col. 407

Slowly.

Propertius, Elegiae 2, 3b, 48-51

Zoals de stier die zich in het begin van de ploeg los wil rukken; later, gewend aan het juk, gaat hij gedwee naar het veld: zo is Amors begin voor een jongen vol felle emoties, later verdraagt hij, getemd, alles, rechtvaardig of niet. [vert. W.A.M. Peters. Baarn 1991, p.50]

Propertius, Elegiae 2, 3b, 48-51

As at first the ox refuses the plough yet at length become familiar to the yoke and goes quietly to the fields, so do proud youths fret in the first ecstasy of love, then, calmer grown, bear good and ill alike. [tr. H.E. Butler, Loeb, p. 73]

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Literature

Henkel and Schöne, Emblemata, col. 1439
Praz, Seventeenth-Century Imagery, p. 102
Sebastiàn, Lectura crítica, p. 20

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Sources and parallels

Pedetentim [11] (in: Otto Vaenius, Emblemata aliquot selectiora amatoria (1618)) [Compare]
Ripa's connotation of 'marriage' in: , . 387
Source for the motto: Junius, Emblemata [web], embl. 30
Source for the metaphor used in this emblem: Ovidius, Ars Amatoria, bk/l. II/184
Source for the metaphor used in this emblem: Propertius, Elegiae, bk/ch/l. II/3/47
Same motto, pictura slightly modified in: Pedetentim. [5] (in: anonymous, Emblemata amatoria (1690)) [Compare]
Slightly different metaphor in: Ripa, Iconologia (1611), lemma. 327
Same metaphor in: Ripa, Iconologia (1603), lemma. 306
Parallel, probably source, for the pictura: Serò detrectat onus qui subijt [23] (in: Daniël Heinsius, Quaeris quid sit Amor (c. 1601)) [Compare]
Parallel, probably source, for the pictura: Seró detrectat onus qui subijt [23] (in: Daniël Heinsius, Emblemata amatoria (1607/8)) [Compare]
Ox bearing a yoke in: Serò detrectat onus qui subijt. [45] (in: Daniël Heinsius, Ambacht van Cupido, from: Nederduytsche poemata (1616)) [Compare]

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References, across this site, to this page:

Pedetentim. [5] (in: anonymous, Emblemata amatoria (1690))
Serò detrectat onus qui subijt [23] (in: Daniël Heinsius, Quaeris quid sit Amor (c. 1601))
Seró detrectat onus qui subijt [23] (in: Daniël Heinsius, Emblemata amatoria (1607/8))
Serò detrectat onus qui subijt. [45] (in: Daniël Heinsius, Ambacht van Cupido, from: Nederduytsche poemata (1616))
Pedetentim [11] (in: Otto Vaenius, Emblemata aliquot selectiora amatoria (1618))

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Iconclass

A cupid putting a yoke on the shoulders of a bull

farm or solitary house in landscape [25I3]
taming, domestication of animals; tamed or domesticated animal [34A11]
yoke [46C14111]
bull (+ animal(s) pulling, drawing something) [47I2111(+95247)]
Authority, Power; 'Dominio', 'Giurisdittione' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept) [53C11(+4)]
Custom, Habit; 'Consuetudine' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept) [54D6(+4)]
(personifications and symbolic representations of) Love; 'Amore (secondo Seneca)' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept) [56F2(+4)]
proverbs, sayings, etc. (with TEXT) [86(PEDETENTIM)]
'Omnia vincit Amor', Love the conqueror, Love triumphant [92D1511]
other non-aggressive activities of Cupid [92D156]

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Pedetentim [14]

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