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LINK_FACSIMILE embstma_1667_fac016
SOURCE_FILE embstma_1667.dmp
LINK embmne_mig1591_emblem058
INTERP_EN Pigmies and Hercules (Try what thou canst)
URL_IMAGE embstma_1667_pic016.jpg
SEQ 16
TIPE emblempictura
NEXT embstma_1667_emblem017
INTERP_DAL Try what you can.
HIM GUL
; EMBLEMS
; ILL_BOOK
; PLANTIN
PARENT embstma_1667
ANNOT In Alciatus, Emblemata, the motto of the emblem is "In eos qui supra vires quicquam audent"
IIHIM GUL
; EMBLEMS
; ILL_BOOK
; PLANTIN
IC 25F23(LION)(+351)
; 25H1124
; 25H113
; 26A
; 31A2352
; 31A2511(+933)
; 31A2512(+933)
; 31A2515(+933)
; 31A534
; 31BB13
; 31B90
; 31D14(+78)
; 32B37
; 41D211(+81)
; 41D91
; 45C12(CLUB)
; 45C13(SWORD)
; 45C19(SHIELD)
; 46A230
; 51EE11(+4)
; 54A33(+4)
; 54A82(+4)
; 86(QUOD POTES, TENTA)
; 94L4124
; 94L8(CLUB)
; 94L8(LION'S SKIN)
ID embstma_1667_emblem016
TEXT_EXPL_XML <p>WHILE, <persName type="mythological">HERCVLES</persName>, with mightie clubbe in hande<lb/>
        In Lyons skinne did sleepe, and take his ease:<lb/>
        <term id="embstma_1667_01601"/>About him straighte approch'de the <rs>Pigmeis</rs> bande,<lb/>
        And for to kill this conquerour assaies,<lb/>
        But foolishe dwarffes? their force was all to smalle,<lb/>
        For when he wak'de, like gnattes hee crush'd  them all.<lb/>
        This warneth vs, that nothinge paste our strengthe<lb/>
        Wee shoulde attempte: nor anie worke pretende,<lb/>
        Aboue our power: left that with shame at lengthe<lb/>
        Wee weaklinges prooue, and fainte before the ende.<lb/>
        The pore, that striue with mightie, this doth blame:<lb/>
        And sottes, that seeke the learned to defame.<lb/>
        <term id="embstma_1667_01602"/><foreign lang="la">Turpe est quod nequeas capiti submittere pondus,<lb/>
         Et pressum inflexo mox dare terga genu.</foreign>
        <gloss target="embstma_1667_01601" lang="la">Hi homun-<lb/>
         ciones extre-<lb/>
         mas AEgypti<lb/>
         partes inhabi-<lb/>
         tant agricola-<lb/>
         tioni dediti,<lb/>
         Subinde cum<lb/>
         gruibus bel-<lb/>
         lum gerunt.<lb/>
         <name type="author">Plinius</name> lib. 7.<lb/>
         cap. 2. &amp;<lb/>
         <name type="author"> Aul. Gellius</name><lb/>
         lib. 9. cap. 4.</gloss>
        <gloss target="embstma_1667_01602" lang="la">
         <name type="author">Propertius</name>.</gloss>
       </p>
      
MOTTO_LA_NORM Quod potes, tenta
INTERP_HEN Vermessenheit
CAPTION_EN Pygmies attack the sleeping Hercules
MOTTO_LA Quod potes, tenta
PREV embstma_1667_emblem015
TYPE emblem pictura
CHILDREN 
CHILDREN_SQRT 0