Alciato at Glasgow: Dual Emblem Display

Section: ARBORES (Trees). View all emblems in this section.

Picea.

The spruce tree

At picea emittat nullos quòd stirpe stolones:
Illius est index, qui sine prole perit.

But the spruce, because it sends up no shoots from its stock, is a symbol of the man who dies without progeny.

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trees: pine (+ plants used symbolically) [25G3(PINE)(+1)] Search | Browse Iconclass
trees: pine (+ bearing fruit) [25G3(PINE)(+34)] Search | Browse Iconclass
trees: pine (+ plants used symbolically) [25G3(SPRUCE)(+1)] Search | Browse Iconclass
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Section: ARBORES (Trees). View all emblems in this section.

Malus medica.

The citron

Aurea sunt Veneris poma haec: iucundus amaror
Indicat, est Graecis sic γλυκυπίκρος amor.[1]

These golden fruits belong to Venus: the sweet bitterness tells us that. Even so is love glukupikros for the Greeks.

Notes:

1. γλυκύπικρος, ‘bitter-sweet’, a concept often applied to Love in Hellenistic epigrams. See Emblem 111 ([A51a111]).

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trees: lemon-tree (+ plants used symbolically) [25G3(ORANGE-TREE)(+1)] Search | Browse Iconclass
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Europeans (with NAME) [32B311(GREEKS)] Search | Browse Iconclass
Pleasure, Enjoyment, Joy; 'Allegrezza', 'Allegrezza da le medaglie', 'Allegrezza, letitia e giubilo', 'Diletto', 'Piacere', 'Piacere honesto' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept) [56B1(+4):56F2(+4)] Search | Browse Iconclass
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attributes of Venus (with NAME) [92C48(ORANGE)] Search | Browse Iconclass

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