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Text #693

Hieronymus VIETOR, epigram to the Youth

ca. 1539-07
Prints:
1DANTISCUS 1539 (AD IUVENES SAECULI HUIUS) p. [2] not numbered after p. Iiii (in extenso)
2JANOCKI 1753 p. 71 (in extenso)
3WISZNIEWSKI 1844 p. 249 (in extenso)

 

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AD IUVENES SAECULI HUIUS

In quibus hoc aevo CHRISTI respublica nutat
Multorum vario turbine corda quatit.
Quo possis igitur fugienda relinquere, cautus
Et sectanda sequi, dent tibi lecta, viam.
A qua ne titubans dementis opinio vulgi
Te trahat, intendas Argus Panoptes mythological figure, one of the Gigants, guardian of the heifer-nymph Io⌊ArgusArgus Panoptes mythological figure, one of the Gigants, guardian of the heifer-nymph Io⌋ ut esse queas.
Atlas one of Titans of Greek mtyhology; he supported the heavens on his shoulders⌊AtlantisAtlas one of Titans of Greek mtyhology; he supported the heavens on his shoulders⌋ fuge, sed qui on the margin⌈quiqui on the margin⌉ nunc crevere, nepotes,
Pectora nam pubis reddere caeca solent.
Quae contacta semel iaculum letale reservant,
Vera salus animae quo vitiata perit.

Hieronymus Vietor (Hieronymus Büttner) (*1480 – †1546/1547), from 1518 owner of one of the largest modern printing houses in Cracow, previously head of a printing house in Vienna; bachelor of Arts at Cracow University (1499); typographer of the royal chancellery of Sigismund I Jagiellon (SZWEJKOWSKA, p. 80-82; KAWECKA-GRYCZOWA, MAŃKOWSKA, p. 325-357)⌊Hier(onymus) Viet(or)Hieronymus Vietor (Hieronymus Büttner) (*1480 – †1546/1547), from 1518 owner of one of the largest modern printing houses in Cracow, previously head of a printing house in Vienna; bachelor of Arts at Cracow University (1499); typographer of the royal chancellery of Sigismund I Jagiellon (SZWEJKOWSKA, p. 80-82; KAWECKA-GRYCZOWA, MAŃKOWSKA, p. 325-357)⌋