Claudian.
NVLLI CVPIAT CESSISSE LABORI.

Cic.
Onus non est appellandum, quod cum lætia feras,
ac voluptate.

Idem.
Solus Amor est, qui nomen difficulatis erubescit.

No labor wearisome.

Loue onlie is asham’d to call his labor payn,
How heauie so it bee, for toyling is his ease,
As hee that hunts or haukes, his trauail doth him please,
Because his whole content lyes in the hope of gayn.

Ogni fatica è lieue.

Si gran peso non è, che ful volante
Dorso non porti Amor, restando dritto,
A li trauagli, à i pesi è sempre inuitto.
Nulla cosa à difficile al’Amante.

Gheenen arbeyt swaer.

De Liefd’ alleen sich schaemt van yet arbeyt te achten/
Hoe swaer den last oock zy/ de quellingh’ is hem rust/
Ghelijck men vist/ of iaeght/ of yet soeckt om sijn lust.
De hoop’ van ’tvanghen doet des arbeyts pijn versachten.

Rien me greue.

Il n’y a si grand poix que d’vne main agile
Sans l’eschine courber ne puisse Amour leuer,
Il se plaist de trauaux, rien ne le peut greuer.
Aussi rien ne se trouue à l’Amour difficile.

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Claudianus, De consulatu Stilichonis (22) 2, 106.

Hij probeert nooit aan inspanning te ontkomen.

Claudianus, De consulatu Stilichonis (22) 2, 106.

He seeks never to yield to toil.

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2, 3, 4.

Last is niet de goede term voor iets wat met vreugde en genoegen wordt gedragen. Alleen de liefde wordt rood van de term 'moeilijkheid'..

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2, 3, 4.

'Burden' is not the righ name for a load carried with satisfaction and pleasure. Only love blushes for the name 'difficulty'.

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Literature

Sebastiàn, Lectura crítica, p. 44

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Sources and parallels

The willingness to undertake te labour of love: Nihil amanti grave [26] (in: Otto Vaenius, Amoris divini emblemata (1615)) [Compare]
Parallel for the pictura (mirrored) and some mottoes (Latin, Italian, French) in: Un Amour portant une Colonne, foulant une Bêche & une peau de Beuf (in: Daniel de la Feuille, Devises et emblemes (1691)) [Compare]

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Un Amour portant une Colonne, foulant une Bêche & une peau de Beuf (in: Daniel de la Feuille, Devises et emblemes (1691))
Nihil amanti grave [26] (in: Otto Vaenius, Amoris divini emblemata (1615))

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A cupid carrying a column steps on a spade and the skin of an ox

trees [25G3]
river [25H213]
prospect of city, town panorama, silhouette of city [25I12]
trampling, treading, stamping on someone or something [31A2726]
coal-shovel [41B224]
archer's weapons: bow [45C15(BOW)]
quiver [45C23]
carrying something on the head or on the shoulders [46C1215]
ox (+ skin, fleece, hide, fur, leather) [47I21111(+9351)]
column, pillar ~ architecture [48C161]
Willingness (+ emblematical representation of concept) [53B4(+4)]
Strength, Power; 'Fortezza', 'Fortezza d'Animo e di corpo', 'Fortezza del corpo congiunta con la generosité dell'animo', 'Fortezza & valore del corpo congiunto con la prudenza & virtù del animo', 'Forza' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept) [54A7(+4)]
Facility (+ emblematical representation of concept) [54D4(+4)]
(personifications and symbolic representations of) Love; 'Amore (secondo Seneca)' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept) [56F2(+4)]
proverbs, sayings, etc. (with TEXT) [86(NULLI CUPIAT CESSISSE LABORI)]
other non-aggressive activities of Cupid [92D156]
attributes of Cupid (with NAME) [92D18(BOW)]
attributes of Cupid (with NAME) [92D18(QUIVER)]

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Nulli cupiat cessisse labori [101]

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