Section: HOSTILITAS (Enmity). View all emblems in this section.

Obnoxia infirmitas.
Weakness is vulnerable
Pisciculos orata [=aurata]
rapit medio aequore sardas,
Ni fugiant pavidae, summa marisque petant.
Ast ibi sunt mergis fulicisque voracibus esca.
Eheu intuta manens undique debilitas.
The little sardines the golden wrasse swallows in the depths of the ocean, unless in fear they flee and make for the surface of the sea. But there they provide a meal for greedy divers and other sea-birds. Alas for weakness, remaining everywhere at risk.
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- water-birds: coot (+ animal in search of food) [25F36(COOT)(+451)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- water-birds: coot (+ postures, positions of animal(s)) [25F36(COOT)(+53)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- water-birds: coot (+ animal looking upwards) [25F36(COOT)(+5711)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- water-birds (with NAME) (+ animal in search of food) [25F36(DIVER)(+451)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- water-birds (with NAME) (+ animal in search of food) [25F36(WATER-FOWL)(+451)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- water-birds (with NAME) (+ animal looking upwards) [25F36(WATER-FOWL)(+5711)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- bony fishes (with NAME) (+ animal with prey) [25F62(GILT-BREAM)(+452)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- bony fishes (with NAME) (+ postures of the head ~ animal) [25F62(GILT-BREAM)(+54)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- bony fishes (with NAME) (+ animal with mouth wide open) [25F62(GILT-BREAM)(+5733)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- bony fishes: sardine (+ postures of the head ~ animal) [25F62(SARDINE)(+54)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- bony fishes: sardine (+ dying animal; death of animal; dead animal) [25F62(SARDINE)(+63)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- bony fishes (with NAME) (+ animal with prey) [25F62(WRASSE)(+452)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- mountains [25H11] Search | Browse Iconclass
- coast [25H13] Search | Browse Iconclass
- sea (seascape) [25H23] Search | Browse Iconclass
- wave [25H2311] Search | Browse Iconclass
- landscape with tower or castle [25I5] Search | Browse Iconclass
- sailing-ship, sailing-boat (+ under way, at sea (~ travelling)) [46C24(+63)] Search | Browse Iconclass
Relating to the text:
- Weakness, Powerlessness, Helplessness; 'Infermità ' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept) [54AA7(+4)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Insafety (+ emblematical representation of concept) [54DD5(+4)] Search | Browse Iconclass
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