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FUROR, ET RABIES.

Fury and madness

Emblema. 57.

Soldier wearing a crown, holding a large shield bearing the name Agamemnon and holding up a sword. Army camp outside a burning city.
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Ora gerit clypeus rabiosi picta leonis,
Et scriptum in summo margine carmen habet.
Hic hominum est terror, cuius possessor Atrida:
Talia magnanimus signa Agamenno tulit.[1]

The shield bears the painted face of a raging lion, and inscribed upon the upper margin has a verse: ‘This is the terror of men, and the son of Atreus is its possessor’. Haughty Agamemnon bore this symbolic figure.

Notes:

1.  This poem is based on Pausanias, Periegesis, 5.19.4. For the ‘raging lion’, cf. Emblem 63,‘Ira’ ([A15a063]). For Agamemnon’s savage temper, see e.g. Homer, Iliad, 1.103-4.

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In temerarios.

The reckless

Figure falling from a chariot being driven through the sky
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Aspicis aurigam currus Phaėtonta[1] paterni
Ignivomos ausum flectere Solis equos.
Maxima qui postquąm terris incendia sparsit:
Est temerč insesso lapsus ab axe miser.
Sic plerique rotis Fortunae ad sydera Reges
Evecti: ambitio quos iuvenilis agit.
Post magnam humani generis clademque, suamque,
Cunctorum poenas denique dant scelerum.

You see here Phaethon, driving his father's chariot, and daring to guide the fire-breathing steeds of the Sun. After spreading great conflagrations over the earth, the wretched boy fell from the car he had so rashly mounted. - Even so, the majority of kings are borne up to heaven on the wheels of Fortune, driven by youth's ambition. After they have brought great disaster on the human race and themselves, they finally pay the penalty for all their crimes.

Notes:

1.  Phaethon, the son of Apollo, the sun-god. The myth referred to here is told in Ovid, Metamorphoses 1.748 - 2.349. Both Phaethon and Icarus (see [A51a103]) are types of those who aim too high and do not recognise their proper sphere.

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