CELEREM OPORTET ESSE AMATORIS MANVM.

Plaut.
Quam tibi sors vltrò, aut occasio donat amicam,
Ne spernas, celeri sed cape dona manu.

Bold and redie.

A swift and redie hand belongeth to a louer,
To take hold where hee sees aduantage to bee sought,
That no occasion chance to slip away vncaught,
Because if hee it lose, hee can it not recouer.

Ardito, e presto.

Porta alata la destra Amor’ alato,
Per volar ratto, il forte braccio stende,
Pochi lascia fuggir, molti ne prende.
Accorto, e presto sia l’innamorato.

Stout en vlijtigh.

Een minnaer hebben moet een wack’re handt seer vaerdigh/
Om wel te grijpen aen daer hy sijn voordeel siet/
Dat gheen ghelegentheyt noch middel hem ontvliet.
Seer vry zijn wel betaemt alst wel gheschiet en aerdigh.

Hardy & prompt.

Amour a l’vne main d’aislerons empennée,
Pour vistement au poil l’occasion happer,
Sans qu’aucune il se laisse hors des mains eschapper.
En Amour vaut le plus du temps la fille aisnée.

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Plautus, Bacchides 737.

De hand van wie verliefd is, moet snel zijn.

Plautus, Bacchides 737.

A lover's hand ought to be nimble. [tr. P. Nixon, Loeb, p. 403]

Als het lot of de gelegenheid u een vriendin geeft, wijst haar niet af, maar grijpt de gave met snelle hand.

When fortune or chance gives you a girl-friend, do not refuse her, but take the gift with swift hand.

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Literature

Henkel and Schöne, Emblemata, col. 1023
Praz, Seventeenth-Century Imagery, p. 107
Sebastiàn, Lectura crítica, p. 31

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Sources and parallels

Hand with wings: Alciato, Book of Emblems, embl. 121
Parallel for the pictura in: Celerem oportet esse Amatoris manum [3] (in: anonymous, Thronus cupidinis (1620)) [Compare]
Same motto, different subscriptio, Cupid's posture differs: Celerem oportet esse amatoris manum. [7] (in: anonymous, Emblemata amatoria (1690)) [Compare]
Parallel for the pictura (mirrored) and the Latin motto (partly) in: Un Amour avec une main ailée, & de l’autre tenant son Arc (in: Daniel de la Feuille, Devises et emblemes (1691)) [Compare]

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Celerem oportet esse amatoris manum. [7] (in: anonymous, Emblemata amatoria (1690))
Un Amour avec une main ailée, & de l’autre tenant son Arc (in: Daniel de la Feuille, Devises et emblemes (1691))
Celerem oportet esse Amatoris manum [3] (in: anonymous, Thronus cupidinis (1620))

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A cupid with wings on his right arm and holding his bow in his left hand

(high) hill [25H113]
river [25H213]
prospect of city, town panorama, silhouette of city [25I12]
hand [31A2245:25F(+342)]
sitting on the ground [31A2351]
archer's weapons: bow [45C15(BOW)]
quiver [45C23]
Swiftness, Speed; 'Agilité', 'Celerité', 'Velocité' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept) [51M11(+4)]
Courage, Bravery, Valiance, Manliness; 'Ardire magnanimo et generoso', 'Gagliardezza', 'Valore', 'Virtù heroica', 'Virtù dell'animo e del corpo' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept) [54A8(+4)]
Action; 'Operatione manifesta' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept) [54D2(+4)]
(personifications and symbolic representations of) Love; 'Amore (secondo Seneca)' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept) [56F2(+4)]
proverbs, sayings, etc. (with TEXT) [86(CELEREM OPORTET ESSE AMATORIS MANUM)]
specific aspects of Cupid [92D17]
attributes of Cupid (with NAME) [92D18(BOW)]
attributes of Cupid (with NAME) [92D18(QUIVER)]

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Celerem oportet esse amatoris manum [56]

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