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In aulicos.
On Courtiers.
Vana Palatinos quos educat[1] aula clientes,
Dicitur auratis nectere compedibus.
The court, so full of vanities, supports the palace entourage, but binds them with fetters of gold, it is said.
Notes:
1. Textual variant: ducat
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- groups of birds (+ flying animal(s)) [25F31(+5262)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- arm held downwards [31A2515] Search | Browse Iconclass
- arm or hand held in front of the body [31A2516] Search | Browse Iconclass
- one leg in front of the other (+ sitting) [31A2621(+53)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- rotating, twisting (movement of the human body) [31A2753] Search | Browse Iconclass
- beard [31A534] Search | Browse Iconclass
- old man [31D16] Search | Browse Iconclass
- front steps [41A35] Search | Browse Iconclass
- terrace [41A351] Search | Browse Iconclass
- inner court of palace or 'h�tel' [41A511] Search | Browse Iconclass
- head-gear (+ men's clothes) [41D221(+81)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- clothing for the upper part of the body (+ men's clothes) [41D223(+81)] Search | Browse Iconclass
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- (personifications of) 'Vanitas', the vanity of human life; Fragilit� humana, Fugacit� delle grandezze & della gloria mondana, Meditatione della morte, Opera vana, Piacere vano, Vana gloria, Vanit� (Ripa) [11R5] Search | Browse Iconclass
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- Restriction, Limitation (+ emblematical representation of concept) [51EE11(+4)] Search | Browse Iconclass
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