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EMBLEMA CXXII.
In eum qui truculentia suorum perierit.
On one who perished through the savagery of his own people.
PROSOPOPEIA
Things given speech.
Delphinem invitum me in littora compulit aestus,
Exemplum infido quanta pericla mari.
Nam si nec propriis Neptunus parcit alumnis,
Quis tutos homines navibus esse putet.[1]
I am a dolphin whom the tide drove ashore against my will, an example showing what great dangers there are in the treacherous sea. For if Neptune does not spare even his own nurslings, who can think that men are safe in ships?
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Das CXXII.
Wider den so auß unbarmhertzigkeit
der seinen verdirbt.
Mich Delphin hat mit gwalt an rand
Die Meeres Wellen gstossen zLand
Bin also ein Exempel und Bild
Der grossen gfar deß Meeres wild
Dann so Neptun selbs nit verschont
Sein eigen Diener drinn bewont
Wer wolt dann glauben das die Leut
In Schiffen darvor weren gfreyt.
1. This is based on Anthologia graeca 7.216 (two lines omitted).
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- swimming mammals: dolphin (+ animal rotating, twisting) [25F27(DOLPHIN)(+5253)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- swimming mammals: dolphin (+ dying animal; death of animal; dead animal) [25F27(DOLPHIN)(+63)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- groups of birds (+ flying animal(s)) [25F31(+5262)] Search | Browse Iconclass
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