It happened today in Hungarian history:
On 13 June 1584, Zsámboki János, the famous Hungarian Renaissance Latinist died in Vienna at the age of 53...
Zsámboki has done a lot for spreading Hungarian culture in Europe, and his work contributed to turning Vienna into an important spiritual center of the continent.
I summarized his life, check it out on my page. Let us also take a glimpse into his Emblemata from 1567, and see the emblem of how sleeping elephants lean on the trunk of a tree.
The title of this emblem is “Nusquam tuta fides”, meaning that “No trust is ever sure”. The Latin poem explains it:
“DUM rigidos artus elephas, dum membra quiete
Sublevat, assuetis nititur arboribus:
Quas ubi venator didicit, succidit ab imo,
Paulatim ut recubans belua mole ruat.
Tam leviter capitur duri qui in proelia Martis
Arma, viros, turrim, tergore vectat opes.
Nusquam tuta fides, nimium ne crede quieti,
Saepius & tutis decipiere locis.
Hippomenes pomis Schoeneïda vicit amatam,
Sic Peliam natis Colchis acerba necat.
Sic nos decipiunt dedimus quibus omnia nostra:
Saltem conantur deficiente fide.”
It means in the English language the following:
“While the elephant rests his stiff joints and limbs, he leans against trees tried and true. When the hunter has learned which these are, he cuts them at the base, so that the beast leaning on it bit by bit should take it down with his weight. So easy is it to capture those, who in the battles of Mars carry on their backs arms, men, and towers. No trust is ever sure, and do not put too much faith in quiet, for you will more often be deceived in secure places. Hippomenes defeated his love, the daughter of Schoeneus, with apples, and so the harsh daughter of Colchis killed Pelias by means of his daughters. So those deceive us to whom we give our all, but they only try as trust diminishes.”
In short: trust no one, because no place is safe.
Here is more about him:
https://www.hungarianottomanwars.com/essays/zsamboki-janos-johannes-sambucus-pannonius-1531-1584/
https://www.hungarianottomanwars.com/essays/zsamboki-janos-johannes-sambucus-pannonius-1531-1584/