Here is today's emblem and distich by
Joachim Camerarius, 2:19. The animal depicted in this emblem is the Latin
urus, a wild ox or European bison attested in Caesar and in Pliny, also known as an aurochs. Supposedly this beast had such a furious temper that hunter could hide behind a tree and shoot at it while it charged the tree; when wounded in this way, the
urus got even angrier and angrier so that the hunter could easily defeat the beast.
Currenti Cede Furori
Quis furor est caeco temere se offerre furori?
Cede, parum exspecta - nec mora, victor eris.Here is the vocabulary:
curro - run
cedo - yield, submit
furor - madness, rage
quis - who, which
sum - be, exist
caecus - blind
temere - rashly
se - reflexive pronoun
offero - offer, present
parum - too little, not at all
exspecto - await, expect, hope for
nec - and not, nor
mora - delay
victor - winner, victor
