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FUROR, ET RABIES.
Fury and madness
Emblema. 57.
Ora gerit clypeus rabiosi picta leonis,
Et scriptum in summo margine carmen habet.
Hic hominum est terror, cuius possessor Atrida:
Talia magnanimus signa Agamenno tulit.[1]
The shield bears the painted face of a raging lion, and inscribed upon the upper margin has a verse: ‘This is the terror of men, and the son of Atreus is its possessor’. Haughty Agamemnon bore this symbolic figure.
1. This poem is based on Pausanias, Periegesis, 5.19.4. For the ‘raging lion’, cf. Emblem 63,‘Ira’ ([A15a063]). For Agamemnon’s savage temper, see e.g. Homer, Iliad, 1.103-4.
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