Link to an image of this page [E3r]
AERE QUANDOQUE SALU
tem redimendam.
Sometimes money must be spent to purchase safety
Link to an image of this page [E3v]
Et pedibus segnis, tumida & propendulus alvo,
Hac tamen insidias effugit arte fiber.
Mordicus ipse sibi medicata virilia vellit,
Atque abiicit sese gnarus ob illa peti,
Huius ab exemplo disces non parcere rebus,
Et vitam ut redimas hostibus aera dare.[1]
Though slow of foot and with swollen belly hanging down, the beaver nonetheless escapes the ambush by this trick: it tears off with its teeth its testicles, which are full of a medicinal substance, and throws them aside, knowing that it is hunted for their sake. - From this creature’s example you will learn not to spare material things, and to give money to the enemy to buy your life.
1. This is based on Aesop, Fables 153, where the same moral is drawn. For the information about the beaver, see Pliny, Natural History 8.47.109; Isidore, Etymologiae (Origines) 12.2.21.
Related Emblems
Hide related emblems- Declaracion magistral sobre las Emblemas de Andres Alciato (1615), Najera: AERE QUANDOQUE SALUTEM redimendam. | Open in other pane
- Emblemata (1621), Padua: AEre quandoque salutem redimendam. | Open in other pane
- Emblematum liber (6th April, 1531), Augsburg: AERE QUANDOQUE SAlutem redimendam. | Open in other pane
- Emblematum liber (1534), Augsburg: AERE QUANDOQUE SALUtem redimendam. | Open in other pane
- Emblematum libellus (1534), Paris: Aere quandoque salutem redimendam. | Open in other pane
- Les Emblemes (1539), Paris: Aere quandoque salutem redimendam. Le salut se doibt acheter. | Open in other pane
- Les Emblemes (1542), Paris: Aere quandoque salutem redimendam. Le salut se doibt acheter. | Open in other pane
- Emblematum libellus (1542), Paris: Aere quandoque salutem redimendam. Das leben etwo mit gelt abkauffen. | Open in other pane
- Los Emblemas (1549), Lyon: Que por redimir la salud no se ha de hazer cuenta del dinero. | Open in other pane
- Emblemata (1550), Lyon: AĆ«re quandoque salutem redimendam. | Open in other pane
- Emblemata (1551), Lyon: Aere quandoque salutem redimendam. | Open in other pane
- Emblematum libri II (Stockhamer) (1556), Lyon: Aere quandoque salutem redimendam. | Open in other pane
- Toutes les emblemes (1558), Lyon: Par argent quelque fois fault racheter sa vie. | Open in other pane
- Liber emblematum ... Kunstbuch (1567), Franckfurt am Main: AĆ«re quandoque salutem redimendam. Man sol zu zeiten kein Gelt ansehen daĆ man sich ledige. | Open in other pane
- Emblemata (1591), Leiden: AEre quandoque salutem redimendam. | Open in other pane
- Diverse imprese (1551), Lyon: Che alle volte si dee ricovrar con loro la salute. | Open in other pane
- Livret des emblemes (1536), Paris: AEre quandoque salutem redimendam. Le salut se doit acheter. | Open in other pane
- Emblemes (1549), Lyons: Par argent quelque fois fault rachepter sa vie. | Open in other pane
- Emblemata / Les emblemes (1584), Paris: Aere quandoque salutem redimendam. Qu'il faut quelquefois racheter la vie par argent. | Open in other pane
- Les emblemes (1615), Geneva/Cologny: Le Salut se doit acheter. | Open in other pane
Hint: You can set whether related emblems are displayed by default on the preferences page
Iconclass Keywords
Relating to the image:
- rodents: beaver (+ sexual organs of a male animal) [25F26(BEAVER)(+3211)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- rodents: beaver (+ animal psychology) [25F26(BEAVER)(+47)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- rodents: beaver (+ squatting, crouching animal) [25F26(BEAVER)(+534)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- rodents: beaver (+ animal(s) being wounded) [25F26(BEAVER)(+62)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- groups of trees [25G11] Search | Browse Iconclass
- trees (+ stem, trunk) [25G3(+21)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- dog (+ movements of animal(s)) [34B11(+952)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- hunt ~ rodents (+ hunting with dogs) [43C11126(+421)] Search | Browse Iconclass
Relating to the text:
- Prudence, 'Prudentia'; 'Prudenza' (Ripa) ~ one of the Four Cardinal Virtues [11M41] Search | Browse Iconclass
- enemy [33B5] Search | Browse Iconclass
- man and animal (+ castration of animal) [34(+511)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- buying [46B411] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Preservation, Sustenance; 'Salvezza', 'Sostanza' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept) [54E43(+4)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Offering; 'Offerta overo Oblatione' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept) [55C22(+4)] Search | Browse Iconclass
Hint: You can turn translations and name underlining on or off using the preferences page.
