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NON TIBI SED RELIGIONI
Not for you but for religion
Isidis effigiem tardus gestabat asellus,
Pando verenda dorso habens mysteria.
Obvius ergo deam quisquis reverenter adorat,
Piasque genibus concipit flexis preces.
Ast asinus tantum praestari credit honorem,
Sibi, & intumescit admodum superbiens.
Donec eum flagris compescens dixit agaso,
Non es deus tu aselle, sed deum vehis.[1]
An ass with dragging feet was carrying an image of Isis, bearing reverend mysteries on its sagging back. So all who met him reverently offered worship to the goddess and recited pious prayers on bended knee. The ass however took it that all this honour was offered to himself, and began to swagger along swollen with pride - until his driver, reducing him with blows, said, ‘You are not god, my little ass, you are carrying god’.
1. See Aesop, Fables 266; Erasmus, Adagia 1104, Asinus portans mysteria.
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- Egyptian religion [12CC132(ISIS)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- statues, paintings, etc. ~ objects of worship (Egyptian religion) - CC - in the open air [12CC63] Search | Browse Iconclass
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- arm raised upward (+ holding something) [31A2511(+933)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- hands with finger-tips against each other [31A25231] Search | Browse Iconclass
- looking upwards (+ saluting, showing reverence) [31B6211(+911)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- adult man (+ two persons) [31D14(+72)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- dress, gown (+ men's clothes) [41D211(+81)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- head-gear (+ men's clothes) [41D221(+81)] Search | Browse Iconclass
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- allegorical representations ~ religion; 'Religione', 'Religione de SS. Mauritio e Lazaro', 'Religione vera christiana' (Ripa) [11P12] Search | Browse Iconclass
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