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SPES PROXIMA.
Hope at hand
Innumeris agitur respublica nostra procellis,
Et spes venturae sola salutis adest.
Non secus ac navis medio circum aequore venti,
Quam rapiunt, salsis iamque fatiscit aquis.
Quod si Helenae adveniant lucentia sydera fratres,[1]
Amissos animos spes bona restituit.
Our country is battered by many a storm, and hope of future safety is all that we have. It is like a ship far out at sea, driven along by the tempest and already gaping open to the salty waters. Yet if the brothers of Helen, the shining stars, appear, then good hope revives the company’s lost courage.
1. ‘The brothers of Helen’, i.e. the stars Castor and Pollux, the Dioscuri, protectors of sailors.
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- Emblematum libri II (Stockhamer) (1556), Lyon: Spes proxima. | Open in other pane
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- Emblemata (1591), Leiden: Spes proxima. | Open in other pane
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Relating to the image:
- sea (seascape) [25H23] Search | Browse Iconclass
- wave [25H2311] Search | Browse Iconclass
- clouds [26A] Search | Browse Iconclass
- winds [26C] Search | Browse Iconclass
- storm at sea [26C32] Search | Browse Iconclass
- sailing-ship, sailing-boat (+ under way, at sea (~ travelling)) [46C24(+63)] Search | Browse Iconclass
Relating to the text:
- stars [24D] Search | Browse Iconclass
- good weather [26F1] Search | Browse Iconclass
- bad weather [26F2] Search | Browse Iconclass
- republic; 'Governo della republica' (Ripa) [44B03] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Adversity, Misfortune, Bad Luck; 'Fortuna infelice', 'Infortunio' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept) [54FF11(+4)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Torment; 'Tribulatione' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept) [56BB12(+4)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Hope; 'Speranza', 'Speranza delle fatiche' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept) [56D1(+4):51I4(+4)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Dioscuri changed into a constellation: in reward of their brotherly love, the Dioscuri are changed into a constellation (+ variant) [97G2(+0)] Search | Browse Iconclass
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