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Fidei symbolum.
The symbol of good faith
XCV.
Stet depictus HonorTyrio velatus amictu,
Eiusque iungat nuda dextram Veritas:
Link to an image of this page [k6r p155]Sitque Amor in medio castus,[1] cui tempora circum
Rosa it, Diones pulchrior Cupidine.[2]
Constituunt haec signa fidem, reverentia Honoris
Quam fovet, alit Amor, parturitque Veritas.
Let Honour stand depicted, clothed in a garment of Tyrian purple, and let naked Truth hold his right hand. Between them, let chaste Love be represented, his brow garlanded with roses, but fairer than Cupid, Dione’s boy. These images constitute good faith, which the reverence due to Honour fosters, Love feeds, Truth brings to birth.
COMMENTARIA.
Ex tribus constare fidem asseritur, stet igi-
tur honor indutus amictu Tyrio, id est, veste
purpurea (Tyrus enim urbs est vetus & no-
bilis in Phoenicia, ubi capiuntur Conchylia
quae purpurae vocantur, quorum sanguine
tinguntur vestes purpureae, Plinius lib. 5. cap.
19. ideoque Tyriae vestes dicuntur, & hu-
iusmodi habitus puritatem & honestatem
significat) eique nuda veritas dextra iungatur
(haec enim omnes fucos perplexitates & or-
namenta odit, propterea simplex & nuda
proponitur): In medio autem adsit amor Ca-
stus, coronam roseam in capite gerens, de quo
supra Emblem. 81.[3] qui longč pulchrior est
quŕm alius ille Cupido filius Diones, id est,
Veneris sic dictae ŕ Dione Nympha, matre
eius. Haec igitur tria signa fidem ipsam
constituent, quam honoris re-
verentia fovet, amor ve-
rus alit, sancta
veritas pa-
rit.
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