
QUO DII VOCANT EUNDUM.
Go where Heaven calls
In trivio mons est lapidum, supereminet illi,
Trunca dei effigies pectore facta tenus.
Mercurii est igitur tumulus, suspende viator,
Serta Deo, rectum qui tibi monstrat iter.[1]
Omnes in trivio sumus, atque hoc tramite vitae
Fallimur, ostendat ni deus ipse viam.[2]
At a parting of the ways, there is a hillock of stones. Rising above it is a half-statue of a god, fashioned as far down as the chest. So the hill is Mercury’s. Traveller, hang wreaths in honour of the god who points out the road to you. We are all at the crossroads, and on this track of life we go wrong, unless God himself shows us the way.
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- (showing oneself) undressed, quasi-nude [41D9] Search | Browse Iconclass
- adult man [31D14] Search | Browse Iconclass
- anthropomorphic beings with parts missing [31A441] Search | Browse Iconclass
- arm stretched forward (+ holding something) [31A251(+933)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- caduceus (staff with two snakes, attribute of Mercury) [92B58(CADUCEUS)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- cross-roads, bifurcation [46C116] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Herm: pillar with the head of Mercury, patron of travellers [92B572] Search | Browse Iconclass
- index finger forwards, pointing, indicating [31A25552] Search | Browse Iconclass
- low hill country [25H114] Search | Browse Iconclass
- piece of sculpture, reproduction of a piece of sculpture [48C24] Search | Browse Iconclass
- snakes (+ symmetrically placed ornamental animals, divided by a (human) figure or an object) [25F42(+154)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- the course of life symbolized [11R3] Search | Browse Iconclass
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- Calling, Vocation, Mission (+ emblematical representation of concept) [57A23(+4)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- God's perfections [11A23] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Guidance (+ emblematical representation of concept) [54E2(+4)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- wreath, garland ~ festive activities [43A(+12)] Search | Browse Iconclass
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