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Quod non capit Christus, rapit fiscus.

What Christ does not receive, the exchequer seizes

Emblema cxlvii.

King squeezing water from a sponge, figures on gallows in the background.
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Exprimit humentes, quas iam madefecerat antè
Spongiolas, cupidi Principis arcta manus.
Provehit ad summum fures, quos deinde coërcet,
Vertat ut in fiscum quae malè parta suum.[1]

The dripping sponges which he had previously filled with moisture the tight hand of a greedy prince is wringing out. He advances thieves to the top and then puts pressure on them, so that he may divert to his own treasury their ill-gotten gains.

EX Suetonio in FlavioVespasiano Is Procurato-
rum rapacissimum quemque ad ampliora officia
ex industria solitus promovere, quo locupletiores
mox condemnaret: quibus quidem vulgò pro spon-
giis dicebatur uti, quòd quasi & siccos madeface-
ret, & exprimeret humentes. Haec ille.

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Ce que Christ ne prend, le fisc l’attrape.

LE Prince avare & fort tenant
Serre l’esponge maintenant,
Qu’il avoit de main allongee
Dedans l’eau largement plongee.
Car il advance les preneurs,
Et les plusgrands entrepreneurs,
Puis il les punit & confisque
Tout cela, dont par leur pratique
Ils s’estoyent desmesurément
Voulus enfler iniquement.

CEcy est de Suetone, en la vie de
Flave Vespasian. Cest empereur coustumiere-
ment employoit tout expres aux grandes
charges ceux qu’il cognoissoit estre addon-
nez à prendre & ravir, afin qu’apres qu’ils se
seroient faicts riches, il les condamnast tout
à l’instant: desquels à ce qu’il disoit en devis
commun, il usoit comme d’esponges, amo-
lissant & trempant ceux qui estoient secs, &
serrant ou pressant les humides. Ainsi parle
Suetone.

Notes:

1.  This is based on Suetonius, Life of the Deified Vespasian 16.

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