
ILLICITUM NON SPERANDUM.
Do not hope for what is not allowed

Spes simul & Nemesis nostris altaribus adsunt,
Scilicet ut speres, non nisi quòd liceat.[1]
Hope and Retribution stand together beside the altar I have built, to ensure that you hope only for that which is allowed.
1. This woodcut is also used for In simulachrum spei [A31a078].
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- index finger forwards, pointing, indicating [31A25552] Search | Browse Iconclass
- looking upwards [31B6211] Search | Browse Iconclass
- toddler (male) (+ two persons) [31D11211(+72)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- adult woman (+ two persons) [31D15(+72)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- window [41A33] Search | Browse Iconclass
- dress, gown (+ women's clothes) [41D211(+82)] Search | Browse Iconclass
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- drapery, draped garment, 'Gewandgebung' [41D27] Search | Browse Iconclass
- archer's weapons: ARROW(+ destruction of weapons) [45C15(ARROW)(+69)] Search | Browse Iconclass
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- nude «« QUEUE OF KEY (1) TO 5(+13) abstract concept represented by child [5(+131)] Search | Browse Iconclass
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- (story of) Cupid, Amor (Eros) [92D1] Search | Browse Iconclass
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Amicitia etiam post mor-
tem durans.[1]
Friendship lasting even beyond death
Arentem senio, nudam quoque frondibus ulmum,
Complexa est viridi vitis opaca coma.[2]
Agnoscitque vices naturae, & grata parenti
Officii reddit mutua iura suo.
Exemploque monet, tales nos quaerere amicos,
Quos neque disiungat foedere summa dies.
A vine shady with green foliage embraced an elm tree that was dried up with age and bare of leaves. The vine recognises the changes wrought by nature and, ever grateful, renders to the one that reared it the duty it owes in return. By the example it offers, the vine tells us to seek friends of such a sort that not even our final day will uncouple them from the bond of friendship.
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- Mortality, Extinction of Life [58BB1] Search | Browse Iconclass
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