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Undecunque occasio promta [50]
Vndecunque occasio promta.
Plutarch.
Vt hedera undevis invenit, quo se alliget: sic amans
quæcunque occurrunt, ad amicæ adaptat nutum.
Vt hedera undevis invenit, quo se alliget: sic amans
quæcunque occurrunt, ad amicæ adaptat nutum.
Duyzent middelen.
Het veil vindt altijdt yet, daer 't aencleeft en mach rysen:
Den minnaer in al 't gheen dat zijn Lief zeyt of doet
Licht oorzaeck vat, die hē toebrenght veel vruchtē zoet.
Den minnaer nutheyt schept op veel verscheyden wysen.
Den minnaer in al 't gheen dat zijn Lief zeyt of doet
Licht oorzaeck vat, die hē toebrenght veel vruchtē zoet.
Den minnaer nutheyt schept op veel verscheyden wysen.
Mille moyens.
Le lierre tousiours trouve en quoy il s'esleve,
Ainsi le sage Amour fait de tout son profit,
Es prend l'occasion, pendant quelle luy rit.
Tout est utile au sage, & nul mal ne le greve.
Ainsi le sage Amour fait de tout son profit,
Es prend l'occasion, pendant quelle luy rit.
Tout est utile au sage, & nul mal ne le greve.
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Modelled after: Undecumque occasio promta [88] (in: Otto Vaenius, Amorum emblemata (1608))
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- Undecumque occasio promta [88] (in: Otto Vaenius, Amorum emblemata (1608))
Iconclass
Cupid is gripping the lock of hair of Occasio who is offering him a cornucopia- trees
[25G3]
- plants and herbs: ivy (+ other characteristics of plant growth)
[25G4(IVY)(+39)(CLIMBING)]
- gripping someone by the hair
[31A25441]
- quiver
[45C23]
- Opportunity, Opportuneness, Seasonableness (+ emblematical representation of concept)
[54B12(+4)]
- 'Occasio', 'Kairos'; 'Occasione' (Ripa) (+ clothed)
[54B121(+113)]
- Victory (+ emblematical representation of concept)
[54F2(+4)]
- (personifications and symbolic representations of) Love; 'Amore (secondo Seneca)' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of
concept)
[56F2(+4)]
- proverbs, sayings, etc. (with TEXT)
[86(UNDECUMQUE OCCASIO PROMTA)]
- 'Cornucopia', Horn of Plenty
[92B11221]
- other non-aggressive activities of Cupid
[92D156]
- attributes of Cupid (with NAME)
[92D18(QUIVER)]