Otto Vaenius, Amorum emblemata (1608)
Table of contents ↑Durate [106]
Translations
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Hou vol. |
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Endure. |
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[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. |
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[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. |
Sources and parallels
- Durate [54] (in: Otto Vaenius, Emblemata aliquot selectiora amatoria (1618))
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- Ayres, Emblemata amatoria, embl. 35
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Same motto, pictura slightly modified: Durate. [33] (in: anonymous, Emblemata amatoria (1690))
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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))
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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))
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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))