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Quod non capit Christus,
rapit fiscus.
What Christ does not receive, the exchequer seizes
Exprimit humentes, quas iam madefecerat antè
Spongiolas, cupidi Principis arcta manus.
Provehit ad summum fures: quos déinde coërcet,
Vertat ut in fiscum quae malè parta suum.[1]
The dripping sponges which he had previously filled with moisture the tight hand of a greedy prince is wringing out. He advances thieves to the top and then puts pressure on them, so that he may divert to his own treasury their ill-gotten gains.
1. This is based on Suetonius, Life of the Deified Vespasian 16.
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- water (one of the four elements) [21D] Search | Browse Iconclass
- beasts of prey, predatory animals: lion (+ ornamental variants of animals) [25F23(LION)(+15)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- groups of birds (+ flying animal(s)) [25F31(+5262)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- coelenterata: sponge [25F75(SPONGE)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- mountain-top, peak [25H1121] Search | Browse Iconclass
- clouds [26A] Search | Browse Iconclass
- head turned to the right [31A2422] Search | Browse Iconclass
- arm stretched forward (+ other neutral connotations) [31A2512(+939)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- arm held downwards (+ holding something) [31A2515(+933)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- one leg in front of the other, walking position (+ leaning) [31A26211(+52)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- climbing [31A2723] Search | Browse Iconclass
- brush, sponge, etc. (toilet articles) [31A5462] Search | Browse Iconclass
- adult man [31D14] Search | Browse Iconclass
- adult man (+ more than eight persons) [31D14(+79)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- violent death by hanging (+ execution (by judicial verdict)) [31E2355(+6)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- ladder [41A343] Search | Browse Iconclass
- front steps [41A35] Search | Browse Iconclass
- terrace [41A351] Search | Browse Iconclass
- trousers, breeches (+ men's clothes) [41D231(+81)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- gear for legs and feet (+ men's clothes) [41D233(+81)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- king [44B113] Search | Browse Iconclass
- crown (symbol of sovereignty) [44B191] Search | Browse Iconclass
- sceptre, staff (symbol of sovereignty) [44B192] Search | Browse Iconclass
- mantle, gown, dress (symbol of sovereignty) [44B197] Search | Browse Iconclass
- on the scaffold or place of execution [44G342] Search | Browse Iconclass
- working class, labourers [46A17] Search | Browse Iconclass
- crowd, mob [46A7] Search | Browse Iconclass
- pressing (industrial process) (+ variant) [47C521(+0)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- half-column, pilaster ~ architecture [48C1611] Search | Browse Iconclass
- piece of sculpture, reproduction of a piece of sculpture [48C24] Search | Browse Iconclass
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- Christ [11D] Search | Browse Iconclass
- ruler and his subjects [44B127] Search | Browse Iconclass
- bad government [44B62] Search | Browse Iconclass
- tax payment [44D211] Search | Browse Iconclass
- financial administration ~ taxes [44D23] Search | Browse Iconclass
- official; civil servant; functionary (in general) [44D40] Search | Browse Iconclass
- thief [44G54] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Greed, Covetousness, Cupidity; 'Cupidità ' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept) [55CC11(+4)] Search | Browse Iconclass
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