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Primos aditus difficiles habet [21]
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Translations
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Het eerste begin is moeilijk. [cf. Ovidius, Remedia amoris 120 Difficiles aditus impetus omnis habet.] |
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Beginnings are difficult. [cf. Ovidius, Remedia amoris 120 Difficiles aditus impetus omnis habet.] |
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Ovidius
Waarom houden de banden van een haas je tegen? Waarom ga je er niet op af en schud je bij het ochtendgloren alle vrees van
je af en spreekt haar aan? Zodra hij zijn vriendin in het oog krijgt, is iedere minnaar verbijsterd van angst of bang van
verbijstering [Ovidius?] |
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Ovidius
Why do the bonds of a hare withold you? Why don't you go forth and don't you cast off all fear at daybreak and speak to her?
For as soon as he spots his girl-friend every lover is astonished with fear and fearing with astonishment. [Ovidius?] |
Literature
- Sebastiàn, Lectura crítica
, p. 22
Sources and parallels
- Primos aditus difficiles habet [15] (in: Otto Vaenius, Emblemata aliquot selectiora amatoria (1618))
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- Ayres, Emblemata amatoria, embl. 4
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May have provided background scene for: Zy brandt en beeft [13] (in: Pieter Cornelisz. Hooft, Emblemata amatoria (1611))
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Same motto, pictura slightly modified, different subscriptio, different number of women: Primos aditus difficiles habet. [4] (in: anonymous, Emblemata amatoria (1690))
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Buschoff 2004, p. 118. Background of the pictura had its influence on:Zy brandt en beeft [13] (in: Pieter Cornelisz. Hooft, Emblemata amatoria (1611))
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References, across this site, to this page:
- Primos aditus difficiles habet. [4] (in: anonymous, Emblemata amatoria (1690))
- Zy brandt en beeft [13] (in: Pieter Cornelisz. Hooft, Emblemata amatoria (1611))
- Zy brandt en beeft [13] (in: Pieter Cornelisz. Hooft, Emblemata amatoria (1611))
- Zy brandt en beeft [13] (in: Pieter Cornelisz. Hooft, Emblemata amatoria (1611))
- Primos aditus difficiles habet [15] (in: Otto Vaenius, Emblemata aliquot selectiora amatoria (1618))
Iconclass
A cupid, followed by a hare, faces a woman- rodents: hare (+ animal(s) pulling, drawing something)
[25F26(HARE)(+5247)]
- one-sided courting
[33C31]
- terrace
[41A351]
- proposal, declaration of love (+ variant)
[42D11(+0)]
- quiver
[45C23]
- tools, aids, implements ~ crafts and industries: rope
[47D8(ROPE)]
- Hope; 'Speranza', 'Speranza delle fatiche' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept)
[56D1(+4)]
- Fear, Dread; 'Paura', 'Timidité o Timore', 'Timore' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept)
[56DD1(+4)]
- (personifications and symbolic representations of) Love; 'Amore (secondo Seneca)' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of
concept)
[56F2(+4)]
- proverbs, sayings, etc. (with TEXT)
[86(PRIMOS ADITUS DIFFICILES HABET)]
- other non-aggressive activities of Cupid
[92D156]
- attributes of Cupid (with NAME)
[92D18(QUIVER)]