Otto Vaenius, Amorum emblemata (1608)
Table of contents ↑Virtutis radix amor [17]
Translations
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De wortel [basis] van de deugd is de liefde. |
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Love is the root [basis] of virtue. |
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Plato
Een ziel die in een lichaam is ondergedompeld, wordt gewekt door de prikkels van Amor en hieruit ontstaat het eerste verlangen
naar het goede te doen. [Plato, Eros?] |
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Plato
A soul that is stuck in a body, is roused up by the stimuli of Eros and from this the first impulses to honourable deeds are
taken. [Plato, Eros?] |
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Cicero, De oratore 1, 30, 134
Zonder liefde zal niemand in het leven ooit iets buitengewoons bereiken. |
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Cicero, De oratore 1, 30, 134
Without love no man will ever attain anything in life that is out of the common. |
Sources and parallels
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Parallel for the subscriptio in: Des eenes glans des anders brandt [17] (in: Pieter Cornelisz. Hooft, Emblemata amatoria (1611))
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- Virtutis radix amor [14] (in: Otto Vaenius, Emblemata aliquot selectiora amatoria (1618))
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- Hercules and the Hydra: Tempera te tempor. [81] (in: Otto Vaenius, Q. Horatii Flacci Emblemata (1612))
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Love has the power to bring about changes: Amor elegantiae pater. [52] (in: Jacob Cats, Sinne- en minnebeelden (1627))
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Love has the power to bring about changes: Amor elegantiae pater. [51] (in: Jacob Cats, Proteus (1618))
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Source for: Virtutis radix amor [14] (in: Otto Vaenius, Emblemata aliquot selectiora amatoria (1618))
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Hercules as personification of Virtue also in: Virtute duce [27] (in: Otto Vaenius, Amorum emblemata (1608))
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References, across this site, to this page:
- Amor elegantiae pater. [51] (in: Jacob Cats, Proteus (1618))
- Amor elegantiae pater. [52] (in: Jacob Cats, Sinne- en minnebeelden (1627))
- Des eenes glans des anders brandt [17] (in: Pieter Cornelisz. Hooft, Emblemata amatoria (1611))
- Virtute duce [27] (in: Otto Vaenius, Amorum emblemata (1608))
- Tempera te tempor. [81] (in: Otto Vaenius, Q. Horatii Flacci Emblemata (1612))
- Virtutis radix amor [14] (in: Otto Vaenius, Emblemata aliquot selectiora amatoria (1618))
- Virtutis radix amor [14] (in: Otto Vaenius, Emblemata aliquot selectiora amatoria (1618))