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Mutuum auxilium.
Mutual help
Loripedem sublatum humeris fert lumine captus,
Et socii haec oculis munera retribuit:
Quo caret alteruter, concors sic praestat uterque,
Mutuat hic oculos, mutuat ille pedes.[1]
A man deprived of sight carries on his shoulders one with deformed feet and offers this service in return for the use of his companion’s eyes. So each of them by mutual consent supplies what the other lacks. One borrows eyes, the other feet.
Notes:
1. This is based on Anthologia graeca 9.12.
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- leaning forward [31A2321] Search | Browse Iconclass
- head bent forward; bowing [31A244] Search | Browse Iconclass
- arm raised upward (+ holding something) [31A2511(+933)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- arm stretched forward (+ indicating, pointing at) [31A2512(+931)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- arm stretched forward (+ holding something) [31A2512(+933)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- arm held downwards [31A2515] Search | Browse Iconclass
- index finger forwards, pointing, indicating (+ indicating, pointing at) [31A25552(+931)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- walking [31A2711] Search | Browse Iconclass
- being carried [31A2733] Search | Browse Iconclass
- blindfold [31A3191] Search | Browse Iconclass
- blind, blindness [31A4111] Search | Browse Iconclass
- crippled [31A415] Search | Browse Iconclass
- crutches [31A4153] Search | Browse Iconclass
- adult man (+ two persons) [31D14(+72)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- coat, cape [41D212] Search | Browse Iconclass
- walking-stick, staff [41D263] Search | Browse Iconclass
- bag [41D268] Search | Browse Iconclass
- pick-a-back, piggyback [43C71841] Search | Browse Iconclass
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- 'Ajuto', 'Soccorso' (Ripa) [33A610] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Necessity of Mutual Co-operation [54E11] Search | Browse Iconclass
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