AMOR ODIT INERTES.

Aspice, ab irato testudo fugatur Amore;
Cunctanti nimiùm quæ pede reptat humi.
Impiger est Amor, & res non in crastina differt.
Nempe in Amore nocet sæpiùs alta mora.

Plaut.
Tardo amante nihil est iniquius.

The slow louer speeds not.

The tortes by the which is signifyed sloth,
Cupid doth from him beat for slothfullness hee hates,
On watchfull speedynes hee diligently waites,
To vse delay in loue the louer must bee loth.

Odiosa pigritia.

Scaccia Amore amator di vigilanza
La testudine lenta, ei mai non dorme,
Sempre trauaglia, segue l’amate orme,
Odia l’otio, e l’inutile tardanza.

Een traghen minnaer bedijdt niet.

De schilt-padt daer men siet de traegheyt me bedieden/
Cupido van hem slaet; gheen traegheyt hy bemint/
Tot wack’re vlijtigheyt is hy altijdt ghesint.
’t Vertoeven in de Liefd’ den minnaer moet ontvlieden.

Tardif amant fascheux.

l’Amour chasse de soy la tardiuité lente,
Que monstre la tortue, il n’est point endormy,
Mais tousiours en besoigne, ainsi que la formy.
Au train d’Amour n’est bon le delay, ny l’attente.

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Translations

Liefde haat de slomen [cf. Ovidius, Ars amatoria 2, 229]

Love hates the sluggish. [cf. Ovidius, Ars amatoria 2, 229]

Kijk, de schildpad wordt door een woedende Amor verjaagd omdat hij met te aarzelende pas over de grond kruipt. Amor is energiek [ongeduldig] en stelt niets uit tot morgen. Want in de Liefde is lang uitstel vaak schadelijk.

Look, the tortoise is driven off by furious Amor because it creeps upon the floor with too hesitating step. Amor is impatient and he does not put off something till tomorrow. For often in Love long delay is harmful.

Plautus, Poenulus 504

Niets is erger dan een slome vriend.

Plautus, Poenulus 504

There is nothing more annoying than a sluggish friend.

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Literature

Henkel and Schöne, Emblemata, col. 615
Luijten and Blankman, Minne- en zinnebeelden, pp. 42-44
Praz, Seventeenth-Century Imagery, p. 107
Sebastiàn, Lectura crítica, p. 29

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Sources and parallels

Tortoise being lashed away: Odit moras [31] (in: Otto Vaenius, Amoris divini emblemata (1615)) [Compare]
Use of the tortoise motif (in another context):
Fugiendo, non effugit. [15] (in: Jacob Cats, Sinne- en minnebeelden (1627)) [Compare]
and Dissidet, quod impar est. [48] (in: Jacob Cats, Sinne- en minnebeelden (1627)) [Compare]
Parallel for the pictura (here female figures in the frame, background less detailed) and a parallel for some mottoes (Latin, Italian, French) in: Un Amour frapant une Tortüe (in: Daniel de la Feuille, Devises et emblemes (1691)) [Compare]

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Fugiendo, non effugit. [15] (in: Jacob Cats, Sinne- en minnebeelden (1627))
Dissidet, quod impar est. [48] (in: Jacob Cats, Sinne- en minnebeelden (1627))
Un Amour frapant une Tortüe (in: Daniel de la Feuille, Devises et emblemes (1691))
Odit moras [31] (in: Otto Vaenius, Amoris divini emblemata (1615))

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A cupid lashing forth with his bow at a tortoise

tortoises, turtles (+ animals used symbolically) [25F44(+1)]
tortoises, turtles (+ forward movement of animal(s)) [25F44(+521)]
coast [25H13]
hitting at something [31A2743]
flight, running away; pursuing [33B9]
archer's weapons: bow [45C15(BOW)]
fortified city [45K14]
Slowness, Tardiness; 'Tardité' (Ripa) (+ symbolical representation of concept) [51MM11(+3)]
Sluggishness, Inertia; 'Dapocaggine', 'Pigritia' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept) [54AA11(+4)]
Idleness; 'Otio' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept) [54DD2(+4)]
(personifications and symbolic representations of) Love; 'Amore (secondo Seneca)' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept) [56F2(+4)]
Hate; 'Odio capitale' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept) [56FF2(+4)]
proverbs, sayings, etc. (with TEXT) [86(AMOR ODIT INERTES)]
Cupid struggling with or tormenting other persons, abstract concepts, (fabulous) animals, etc. [92D142]
attributes of Cupid (with NAME) [92D18(BOW)]

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Amor odit inertes [46]

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