FACIT OCCASIO FVREM.

Ouid.
Non facilè esuriens posita retinebere mensa,
Et multam saliens incitat vnda sitim.

Occasion causeth theft.

The hungrie having meat can hardly it refrayn,
The thirstie at the well can il forbeare to drink,
The louer with his loue tyme seruing one would think,
For to enioy her loue as litle can abstayn.

Spesso l’ occasion fà l’huomo ladro.

A la viuanda l’affamato corre,
At al’ acque stillanti il sitibondo;
l’Amante à la sua Dea corre giocondo,
Ne lascia al’ occasion tempo interporre.

Oorsaeck doet stelen.

Die honghert by de spijs’ can qualick t’eten laten/
Die by het water dorst/ die wil daer drincken van:
Den minnaer by sijn Lief hem qualick wachten kan
Te blusschen sijnen brandt van Liefde bouen mate.

l’Occasion fait la larron.

l’Estomach affamè n’espargne la viande,
La soif s’accroist à voir la fontaine iaillir:
Qui trouue aupres de luy son coeur, ne peut faillir
De prendre tout son soul de chose si friande.

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Translations

De gelegenheid maakt de dief [motto: cf. Cats Embl. 33]

Opportunity makes the thief. [motto: cf. Cats Embl. 33]

Ovidius, Remedia amoris 631-632

Als je honger hebt zul je niet gemakkelijk van een neergezette tafel worden afgehouden en kabbelend water wekt grote dorst op.

Ovidius, Remedia amoris 631-632

With difficulty will you be kept, when hungry, from the appointed feast, and springing water provokes a raging thirst. [tr. J.H. Mozley, Loeb, p. 221]

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Literature

Praz, Seventeenth-Century Imagery, p. 101
Sebastiàn, Lectura crítica, p. 28

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Sources and parallels

Christ and the soul at the table: De Ziele begeert Christus, het broot des levens wesentlijck in haer te hebben [20] (in: Jan Luyken, Jesus en de ziel (1685)) [Compare]
Facit occasio furem [28] (in: Otto Vaenius, Emblemata aliquot selectiora amatoria (1618)) [Compare]
Parallel for the pictura (mirrored) and the Latin and French motto in: Un Cupidon mangeant d’un Paté, & un autre beuvant à une Fontaine (in: Daniel de la Feuille, Devises et emblemes (1691)) [Compare]

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Un Cupidon mangeant d’un Paté, & un autre beuvant à une Fontaine (in: Daniel de la Feuille, Devises et emblemes (1691))
De Ziele begeert Christus, het broot des levens wesentlijck in haer te hebben [20] (in: Jan Luyken, Jesus en de ziel (1685))
Facit occasio furem [28] (in: Otto Vaenius, Emblemata aliquot selectiora amatoria (1618))

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A cupid stealing food from a laid table, another cupid drinking from a fountain

landscape with tower or castle [25I5]
fountain (indoors) [41A3915]
eating [41C11]
drinking [41C12]
laid table: table-ware, table-decoration, etc. [41C3]
thief [44G54]
'Occasio', 'Kairos'; 'Occasione' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept) [54B121(+4)]
(personifications and symbolic representations of) Love; 'Amore (secondo Seneca)' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept) [56F2(+4)]
proverbs, sayings, etc. (with TEXT) [86(FACIT OCCASIO FUREM)]
other non-aggressive activities of Cupid [92D156]
companions of Cupid [92D191]

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Facit occasio furem [43]

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