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CAPTIVUS OB GULAM.
Caught by greed
Regnator poenus, & mensae corrosor[1] herilis,
Ostrea mus summis vidit hiulca labris.
Quīs teneram opponens[2] barbam falsa ossa momordit
Illa recluserunt[3] tacta repente domum.
Depraensum & tetro tenuerunt carcere furem,
Semet in obscurum qui dederat tumulum.[4]
A mouse, king of the pantry, nibbler at the master’s table, saw oysters with their shells just slightly open. Applying his sensitive whiskers, he nibbled the deceptive bone. The oysters, when touched, suddenly slammed shut their house and held the thief, caught red-handed, in a noisome prison, a thief who had put himself into a lightless tomb.
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- rodents: mouse (+ animal(s) being hit, shot, caught) [25F26(MOUSE)(+621)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- rodents: mouse (+ animal(s) being hit, shot, caught) [25F26(RAT)(+621)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- mouse trap [34D111] Search | Browse Iconclass
Relating to the text:
- Gluttony, Intemperance, 'Gula'; 'Gola', 'Ingordigia', 'Ingordigia overo Aviditą', 'Voracitą' (Ripa) ~ personification of one of the Seven Deadly Sins [11N35] Search | Browse Iconclass
- rodents: mouse (+ animal(s) being hit, shot, caught) [25F26(MOUSE)(+621)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- molluscs (+ shell, snail-shell etc.) [25F72(+36)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- molluscs: oyster (+ animal with prey) [25F72(OYSTER)(+452)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- law and jurisprudence (+ imprisonment) [44G(+56)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Intemperance, Immoderation (+ emblematical representation of concept) [54AA43(+4)] Search | Browse Iconclass
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