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GOLA.
Greed.
Ha il ventre gonfio, & ha il collo di Grue,
E ne le man
duo ingordi uccelli porta
Questo, che tutte le sustanze sue
Mangia e
divora, e la sua vita accorta.
Cosi fanno i Golosi, che giamai
Satii non
sono, e lor non basta assai.
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- water-birds: pelican [25F36(PELICAN)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- shore-birds and wading-birds: gull [25F37(GULL)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- rocks [25H112] Search | Browse Iconclass
- clouds [26A] Search | Browse Iconclass
- head turned to the left [31A2421] Search | Browse Iconclass
- standing, leaning, sitting or lying with legs apart (+ standing) [31A26114(+51)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- anthropomorphic beings with parts of abnormal shape (+ abdomen, belly) [31A444(+13)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- anthropomorphic beings with parts of abnormal shape (+ neck) [31A444(+615)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- anthropomorphic beings with parts of abnormal shape (+ neck) [31A444(+615):25F37(CRANE)(+3)] Search | Browse Iconclass
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- adult man (+ three persons) [31D14(+73)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- various human types [32A4:11N35] Search | Browse Iconclass
- clothing for the upper part of the body (+ men's clothes) [41D223(+81)] Search | Browse Iconclass
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- Gluttony, Intemperance, 'Gula'; 'Gola', 'Ingordigia', 'Ingordigia overo Avidità ', 'Voracità ' (Ripa) ~ personification of one of the Seven Deadly Sins [11N35] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Intemperance, Immoderation (+ emblematical representation of concept) [54AA43(+4)] Search | Browse Iconclass
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Link to an image of this page [F3r f43r]Dolus in suos.
Treachery against one’s own kind.
Altilis allectator anas, & caerula pennis
Adsueta ad dominos ire redire suos,
Congeneres cernens volitare per aera turmas
Garrit, in illarum se recipitque gregem,
Praetensa incautas donec sub retia ducat.
Obstrepitant captae, conscia at ipsa silet.
Perfida cognato se sanguine polluit ales,
Officiosa aliis, exitiosa suis.[1]
The well-fed decoy duck with its green-blue wings is trained to go out and return to its masters. When it sees squadrons of its relations flying through the air, it quacks and joins itself to the flock, until it can draw them, off their guard, into the outspread nets. When caught they raise a protesting clamour, but she, knowing what she has done, keeps silence. The treacherous bird defiles itself with related blood, servile to others, deadly to its own kind.
1. Cf. Aesop, Fables, 282, where the decoy birds are pigeons.
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- prospect of city, town panorama, silhouette of city [25I12] Search | Browse Iconclass
- fowling, fowler (+ net) [43C13(+415)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- duck decoy [43C132] Search | Browse Iconclass
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- audible means of communication of animal(s): roaring, crying, singing, etc. [25F(+49)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- domestic animals, kept in and outside the house [34B] Search | Browse Iconclass
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- Betrayal (+ emblematical representation of concept) [57AA6142(+4)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Cheat, Deceit; 'Fraude', 'Inganno' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept) [57AA621(+4)] Search | Browse Iconclass
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