Otto Vaenius, Amorum emblemata (1608)
Table of contents ↑Nec regna socium ferre, nec tædæ sinunt [91]
Translations
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Seneca, Agamemno 259.
De troon laat zich niet delen, noch een echtgenoot. |
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Seneca, Agamemno 259.
Nor throne nor bed can brook a partnership. [tr. F.J. Miller, Loeb, p. 25]. |
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Propertius, Elegiae 2, 34, 15-18.
Levensgezel mag je worden van mij, mijn lijf is het jouwe, eigenaar maak ik jou, vriend, van alles wat ik bezit, uitgezonderd
het bed, het bed is wat ik je weiger. Jupiter zelf duld ik daar niet als rivaal.
[tr. W.A.M. Peters, Baarn 1991, p. 82.] |
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Propertius, Elegiae 2, 34, 15-18.
You may be the comrade of my life and part never from my side, my friend, I make you lord of all my fortune: it is only as
partner in my love that I will have you never: I can not endure a rival, though he were Jove himself. [tr. tr. H.E. Butler,
Loeb, p. 167.]. |
Sources and parallels
- Contrast the exclusiveness of secular love with the willingness to share
divine love in:
Crescit in immensum [17] (in: Otto Vaenius, Amoris divini emblemata (1615))
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and [Opener] (in: Otto Vaenius, Amoris divini emblemata (1615))
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. - Ayres, Emblemata amatoria, embl. 25
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Parallel for the pictura (mirrored, less detailed) and for some mottoes (the English, Italian, Dutch, French ones;
though not exactly): Un Cupidon frappant une personne qui le vient interrompre étant prés d’une Belle (in: Daniel de la Feuille, Devises et emblemes (1691))
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References, across this site, to this page:
- Un Cupidon frappant une personne qui le vient interrompre étant prés d’une Belle (in: Daniel de la Feuille, Devises et emblemes (1691))
- [Opener] (in: Otto Vaenius, Amoris divini emblemata (1615))