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Etiam ferocissimos domari.

Even the fiercest are tamed.

Warrior on carriage drawn by lions.
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Romanum postquàm eloquium, Cicerone perempto,
Perdiderat[1] patriae pestis acerba suae:
Inscendit currus victor iunxitque leones[2],
Compulit & durum colla subire iugum,
Magnanimos cessisse suis Antonius armis
Ambage hac cupiens significare duces.

After Antony, that grievous bane of his country, had destroyed eloquence by slaying Cicero, he mounted his chariot in triumph and yoked to it lions, forcing their necks to bow to the harsh yoke, desiring by this symbolic act to indicate that great leaders had given way before his military might.

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1.  ‘had destroyed eloquence by slaying Cicero’. Cicero was considered Rome’s greatest orator - his name was held by many to be synonymous with eloquence itself; see Quintilian, Institutio oratoria 10.1.112. Mark Antony had Cicero murdered in 43 BC in revenge for his scathing attacks in the fourteen ‘Philippic’ orations. See Seneca the Elder, Suasoriae 6.17.

2.  Cf. Pliny, Natural History 8.21.55: Antony was the first to yoke lions to a chariot in Rome...by this unnatural sight giving people to understand that noble spirits were at that time bowing to the yoke.

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EMBLEMA XXVI.

Concordia insuperabilis.

Concord is insuperable

Tergeminos inter fuerat concordia fratres,
Tanta simul pietas mutua, & unus amor.
Invicti humanis ut viribus ampla tenerent
Regna, uno dicti nomine Geryonis.[1]

There was concord between triplet brothers, such mutual care, one love between them all; and so, unconquerable by human force, they held wide realms and were called by the one name of Geryones.

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Das XXVI.

Einigkeit ist unuberwindtlich.

The three-headed king Geryones, holding a shield and three weapons
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Die Brüder so drey Zwilling
Lebten mit einander eining
Ir [=In] solcher lieb, gunst und freundtschafft
Sie gegn einander warn verhafft
Das sie regierten also zgleich
Ohn widerstandt ir eigen Reich
Wurden auch nur mit eim namen gnennt
Geryon, dabey man sie kennt.

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1.  This is a rationalisation of Geryones, the unconquerable giant with three heads or three bodies, who dwelt on the island Erytheia of the mythic Hesperides, eventually vanquished and killed by Hercules during his abduction of Geryones’ famous cattle. See Emblem 17 ([A67a017]).

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