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Aequitas.
Fairness [or Justice]
Le debvoir d’un grand prince, & d’un grand justicier
Est sçavoir ce qu’il faut comme la loy commande,
Du droict est l’un des yeux cler-voyant & entier,
L’autre est trouble, attrempant une rigueur trop grande.
La Republique aussi de rigueur demande
Le roide ny le lasche: elle se plaist d’avoir
Entre droict & pardon un moyenné pouvoir.
Le glaive commandeur regnera par prudence
Dont le sang commençant est de vie accroissance.
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- animals (+ claws, paws of an animal) [25F(+341)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- arm or hand held in front of the body - AA - both arms or hands (+ holding something) [31AA2516(+933)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- arm stretched forward (+ holding something) [31A2512(+933)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- arm stretched forward (+ indicating, pointing at) [31A2512(+931)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- baldness [31A5339] Search | Browse Iconclass
- beard [31A534] Search | Browse Iconclass
- book - MM - book open [49MM32] Search | Browse Iconclass
- canopy, baldachin [41A4231] Search | Browse Iconclass
- climbing [31A2723] Search | Browse Iconclass
- column, pillar ~ architecture [48C161] Search | Browse Iconclass
- crown (symbol of sovereignty) [44B191] Search | Browse Iconclass
- façade (of house or building) [41A31] Search | Browse Iconclass
- hacking and thrusting weapons: sword [45C13(SWORD)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- index finger forwards, pointing, indicating [31A25552] Search | Browse Iconclass
- looking downwards [31B6212] Search | Browse Iconclass
- old man [31D16] Search | Browse Iconclass
- one leg in front of the other (+ sitting) [31A2621(+53)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- other ornament derived from animal forms [48A9845] Search | Browse Iconclass
- ruler commanding [44B125] Search | Browse Iconclass
- ruler, sovereign [44B1] Search | Browse Iconclass
- sitting on an elevation [31A2352] Search | Browse Iconclass
- snakes (+ animal rotating, twisting) [25F42(+5253)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- snakes (+ animals used symbolically) [25F42(+1)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- terrace [41A351] Search | Browse Iconclass
- throne [44B1212] Search | Browse Iconclass
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- blood [31A22611] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Equality, Equity, Fairness, Righteousness; 'Equalità', 'Equità', 'Giuditio giusto', 'Ordine dritto e giusto', 'Ugualità' (Ripa) [59C21] Search | Browse Iconclass
- eyes [31A2212] Search | Browse Iconclass
- government, the State; 'Politica', 'Auttorità o Potestà' (Ripa) [44B] Search | Browse Iconclass
- granting mercy; free pardon [44B123] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Justice; 'Forza alla giustitia sottoposta', 'Giustitia', 'Giustitia retta', 'Giustitia rigorosa', 'Impietà e violenza soggetta alla giustitia', (Ripa) [59C2] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Maintenance of the Law [59C1] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Pardon; 'Perdono' (Ripa) [57A741] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Prudence, 'Prudentia'; 'Prudenza' (Ripa) ~ one of the Four Cardinal Virtues [11M41] Search | Browse Iconclass
- sight, looking (one of the five senses) [31A31] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Sternness; 'Rigore' (Ripa) [53C13] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Temperance, Moderation; 'Misura' (Ripa) [54A43] Search | Browse Iconclass
- virtues of the ruler [44B10] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Wisdom; 'Sapienza', 'Sapienza humana', 'Sapienza vera' (Ripa) [52A51] Search | Browse Iconclass
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