C'est tard avisé. Submerso frustra stipatus fossa juvenco, Sic sero sapiunt post sua damna Phryges. Jacques de Gheyn II, Théâtre d'amour (c.1600) Plate 22.
A peasant burying the corpse of a horse into a pit; his breast pierced by an arrow aimed at him by Cupid, seen at top left; the heifer's tail seen in the pit; beyond, rows of trees.
This is the eighteenth emblem from Daniel Heinsius' emblem book 'Quaeris quid sit Amor...'















