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ELCE.
Holm-oak.
Chi voul l’Elce
piegar, per esser dura,
Si rompe e spezza: cosi
alcun Signore
Mentre d’esser
severo ha troppa cura,
E punir aspramente
il popol suole,
Pon la discordia, e la concordia fura,
Contrario effetto a
quel che brama e vuole;
Che non offende alturi cosi la legge,
Quanto la
leggerezza di chi regge.
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- trees: holm-oak (+ plants used symbolically) [25G3(HOLM-OAK)(+1)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- trees: holm-oak (+ bearing fruit) [25G3(HOLM-OAK)(+34)] Search | Browse Iconclass
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- bad ruler [44B17] Search | Browse Iconclass
- law and jurisprudence [44G] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Hardness [51G4] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Severity; 'Severità' (Ripa) [53C12] Search | Browse Iconclass
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Ilex.
The holm-oak
EMBLEMA CCV.
Duritie nimia[1] quòd sese rumperet ilex,
Symbola civilis seditionis habet.
Because the holm-oak splits spontaneously through excessive inflexibility, it provides symbols for civic discord.
1. Duritie nimia, ‘excessive inflexibility’. Cf. Pliny, Natural History, 16.73.186 (tota ossea est ilex, ‘the holm-oak is entirely bone-like’).
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