Oct 30, 2018
Sero detrectat onus qui subijt. Frustra tento oneri me jam subducere frustra. Jam juga detrectant, quæ subiere boves. HG. Jacques de Gheyn II, Théâtre d'amour (c.1600) Plate 27.
A yoked ox drags Cupid, seated on a plow; he aims his arrow at the ox with his right hand; beyond, hills and trees.
This is the twenty-third emblem from Daniel Heinsius' emblem book 'Quaeris quid sit Amor...'. Emblem 30 in Junius is the souce of this emblem; Heinsius has also added the figure of Love as an ox-herd