DVRATE.

[No source given]
Nonne vides, silices vt duros gutta perennis
Saxáque stillicidî casus & ipsa cauet,
Utque annosa cadat repetitis ictibus ilex?
Sic dabit vrgenti victa puella manus.

By continuance.

Not with one stroke at first the great tree goes to grownd,
But it by manie strokes is made to fall at last,
The drop doth pierce the stone by falling long and fast,
So by enduring long long soght-for loue is found.

Patiente, e frequente.

Al primo colpe l’arbore non cade,
Ma non colpi iterati, ancho souente
Strutta e la pietra dal’ humor cadente.
A patienza Amor mostra humiliade.

Met ghedult.

Den boom met d’eerste slagh en valt niet in ’t beghinnen.
Maer in ’t volherden wel door slaghen veelderley/
’t Ghestadigh druppen hoolt een steen/ of herde key.
Den minnaer met ghedult ’t hert van sijn lief moet winnen.

Patience vaincqt tout.

Du premier coup de hache on n’abbat vn gros arbre:
Ainsi au fait d’Amour, on doibt de longue main,
Et à la sappe vaincre vn courage hautain.
La goutte continue en fin creuse le marbre.

211 ↓

Back to top ↑

Facsimile Images

210, LEI:

210, LDF:

210, LIF:

211, pictura:

Back to top ↑

Translations

Hou vol.

Endure.

[cf. Ovidius, Epistulae ex ponto 4, 10, 5; 2, 7, 40; Ars amatoria 1, 475].

Zie je niet hoe aanhoudende druppels harde stenen uithollen en het vallen van het druipende water zelf een rots erodeert, en hoe een oude eik door herhaalde slagen valt. Zo zal een meisje toegeven aan iemand die aanhoudt.

[cf. Ovidius, Epistulae ex ponto 4, 10, 5; 2, 7, 40; Ars amatoria 1, 475].

Don't you see how constant drops hollow out hard stones, and the falling of the dripping water itself erodes the rock, and how an old oak falls by repeated strokes. In the same way a girl will give up to someone who urges her.

Back to top ↑

Literature

Henkel and Schöne, Emblemata, col. 222
Sebastiàn, Lectura crítica, p. 45

Back to top ↑

Sources and parallels

Durate [54] (in: Otto Vaenius, Emblemata aliquot selectiora amatoria (1618)) [Compare]
Ayres, Emblemata amatoria, embl. 35
Same motto, pictura slightly modified: Durate. [33] (in: anonymous, Emblemata amatoria (1690)) [Compare]
Same metaphor ("No tree falls at one blow" for "It takes endurance to conquer the beloved") used in: Repete. [7] (in: Jacob Cats, Sinne- en minnebeelden (1627)) [Compare]
Parallel for the pictura (mirrored, no castle in the background) and Italian motto (nearly) the same in: Un Amour qui veut abbatre un gros Arbre (in: Daniel de la Feuille, Devises et emblemes (1691)) [Compare]

Back to top ↑

References, across this site, to this page:

Repete. [7] (in: Jacob Cats, Sinne- en minnebeelden (1627))
Durate. [33] (in: anonymous, Emblemata amatoria (1690))
Un Amour qui veut abbatre un gros Arbre (in: Daniel de la Feuille, Devises et emblemes (1691))
Durate [54] (in: Otto Vaenius, Emblemata aliquot selectiora amatoria (1618))

Back to top ↑

Iconclass

A cupid striking a tree with an axe

trees [25G3]
river [25H213]
prospect of city, town panorama, silhouette of city [25I12]
archer's weapons: bow [45C15(BOW)]
quiver [45C23]
tools, aids, implements ~ crafts and industries: axe [47D8(AXE)]
woodcutting, woodcutter ~ forestry [47I84]
Constancy, Tenacity; 'Costanza', 'Tenacité' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept) [53A21(+4)]
Patience; 'Patienza' (Ripa) (+ symbolical representation of concept) [54A44(+3)]
(personifications and symbolic representations of) Love; 'Amore (secondo Seneca)' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept) [56F2(+4)]
proverbs, sayings, etc. (with TEXT) [86(DURATE)]
'Omnia vincit Amor', Love the conqueror, Love triumphant [92D1511]
other non-aggressive activities of Cupid [92D156]
attributes of Cupid (with NAME) [92D18(BOW)]
attributes of Cupid (with NAME) [92D18(QUIVER)]

Back to top ↑

Comments

Back to top ↑

Durate [106]

Facsimile Images

Translations

Literature

Sources and parallels

References, across this site, to this page:

Iconclass

Comments

Notes