
ILLICITUM NON SPERANDUM.
Do not hope for what is not allowed

Spes simul & Nemesis nostris altaribus adsunt,
Scilicet ut speres non nisi quod liceat.[1]
Hope and Retribution stand together beside the altar I have built, to ensure that you hope only for that which is allowed.
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- Declaracion magistral sobre las Emblemas de Andres Alciato (1615), Najera: ILLICITUM NON SPErandum. | Open in other pane
- Emblemata (1621), Padua: Illicitum non sperandum. | Open in other pane
- Emblematum liber (6th April, 1531), Augsburg: ILLICITUM NON SPERANDUM. | Open in other pane
- Emblematum liber (1534), Augsburg: ILLICITUM NON SPERANDUM. | Open in other pane
- Emblematum libellus (1534), Paris: Illicitum non sperandum. | Open in other pane
- Les Emblemes (1539), Paris: Illicitum non sperandum. Rien esperer illicite. | Open in other pane
- Les Emblemes (1542), Paris: Illicitum non sperandum. Rien esperer illicite. | Open in other pane
- Emblematum libellus (1542), Paris: Illicitum non sperandum. Nicht unbillichs zu hoffen. | Open in other pane
- Los Emblemas (1549), Lyon: Que no se ha de esperar lo que no es liçito. | Open in other pane
- Emblemata (1550), Lyon: Illicitum non sperandum. | Open in other pane
- Emblemata (1551), Lyon: Illicitum non sperandum. | Open in other pane
- Emblematum libri II (Stockhamer) (1556), Lyon: Illicitum non sperandum. | Open in other pane
- Toutes les emblemes (1558), Lyon: On ne doibt esperer chose illicite. | Open in other pane
- Liber emblematum ... Kunstbuch (1567), Franckfurt am Main: Illicitum non sperandum. Das verbotten und nit gezimpt, sol man nicht hoffen. | Open in other pane
- Emblemata (1591), Leiden: Illicitum non sperandum. | Open in other pane
- Diverse imprese (1551), Lyon: Che no si debbono sperar, senon le cose lecite. | Open in other pane
- Livret des emblemes (1536), Paris: Illicitum non sperandum. Rien esperer illicite. | Open in other pane
- Emblemes (1549), Lyons: On ne doibt esperer chose illicite. | Open in other pane
- Emblemata / Les emblemes (1584), Paris: Illicitum non sperandum. Ne fault rien esperer qui ne soit loisible. | Open in other pane
- Les emblemes (1615), Geneva/Cologny: Rien esperer illicite. | Open in other pane
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- arm stretched forward (+ holding something) [31A2512(+933)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- index finger forwards, pointing, indicating [31A25552] Search | Browse Iconclass
- looking upwards [31B6211] Search | Browse Iconclass
- toddler (male) (+ two persons) [31D11211(+72)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- adult woman (+ two persons) [31D15(+72)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- window [41A33] Search | Browse Iconclass
- dress, gown (+ women's clothes) [41D211(+82)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- barefoot [41D2339] Search | Browse Iconclass
- drapery, draped garment, 'Gewandgebung' [41D27] Search | Browse Iconclass
- archer's weapons: ARROW(+ destruction of weapons) [45C15(ARROW)(+69)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- saddle and bridle (saddlery) [46C13161] Search | Browse Iconclass
- nude «« QUEUE OF KEY (1) TO 5(+13) abstract concept represented by child [5(+131)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Hope; 'Speranza', 'Speranza delle fatiche' (Ripa) (+ abstract concept represented by female figure) [56D1(+11)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Hope; 'Speranza', 'Speranza delle fatiche' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept) [56D1(+4)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- (story of) Cupid, Amor (Eros) [92D1] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Nemesis (Adrastea) [92G2] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Spes as Roman personification [96A5(SPES)] Search | Browse Iconclass
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- Legality (+ emblematical representation of concept) [59C3(+4)] Search | Browse Iconclass
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