Cosi Di Ben Amar Porto Tormento

Here is today's emblem and distich by Gabriel Rollenhagen, Book 1.64. The Italian title (taken from Petrarch) was a popular one with the emblem writers: "So from loving well, I endure torture." Luckily, Rollenhagen has made the fly very large so that you can see the poor creature before it plunges into the flame.

Cosi Di Ben Amar Porto Tormento
Musca velut sequitur flammam ac sese iniicit igni,
Sic Veneris telis laeta iuventa perit.

Here is the vocabulary:

musca - fly
velut - just as
sequor - follow
flamma - flame
ac - and, and also
se - reflexive pronoun
iniicio - throw into
ignis - fire
sic - thus
Venus - goddess of love, love
telum - dart, spear, weapon
laetus - happy, joyful
iuventa - youth
pereo - perish, die, pass away