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NON VULGANDA CON
SILIA.
Keep counsels secret.
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Limine quod caeco obscura & caligine monstrum[1],
Gnosiacis clausit Daedalus in latebris.
Depictum Romana phalanx in praelia gestat,
Semiviroque nitent signa superba[2] Iove.
Nosque monent debere ducum secreta[3] latere,
Consilia auctori cognita techna nocet.
The monster that Daedalus imprisoned in its Cretan lair, with hidden entrance and obscuring darkness, the Roman phalanx carries painted into battle; the proud standards flash with the half-man bull. These remind us that the secret plans of leaders must stay hid. A ruse once known brings harm to its author.
1. ‘The monster that Daedalus imprisoned’, i.e. the Minotaur, the half-man, half-bull monster kept in the famous Labyrinth at Knossos, which Daedalus, the Athenian master-craftsman, constructed for King Minos.
2. According to Pliny, Natural History 10.5.16, before the second consulship of Marius (104 BC) Roman standards bore variously eagles, wolves, minotaurs, horses and boars. Marius made the eagle universal.
3. Cf. Festus, De verborum significatu (135 Lindsay): the Minotaur appears among the military standards, because the plans of leaders should be no less concealed than was the Minotaur’s lair, the Labyrinth.
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- Emblematum liber (6th April, 1531), Augsburg: NON VULGANDA consilia.
- Emblematum libellus (1534), Paris: Non vulganda consilia.
- Livret des emblemes (1536), Paris: Non vulganda consilia. Tenir encloz secret.
- Les Emblemes (1539), Paris: Non vulganda consilia. Tenir encloz secret.
- Les Emblemes (1542), Paris: Non vulganda consilia. Tenir encloz secret.
- Emblematum libellus (1542), Paris: Non vulganda consilia. Kriegs anschleg sol man nít offenbaren.
- Los Emblemas (1549), Lyon: Que no se à de descubrir el secreto.
- Emblemes (1549), Lyons: Les secretz conseilz ne sont a reveler.
- Emblemata (1550), Lyon: Non vulganda consilia.
- Emblemata (1551), Lyon: Non vulganda consilia.
- Diverse imprese (1551), Lyon: Che i consigli appalesar non si debbono.
- Emblematum libri II (Stockhamer) (1556), Lyon: Non vulganda consilia.
- Toutes les emblemes (1558), Lyon: Les secretz conseilz ne sont à reveler.
- Liber emblematum ... Kunstbuch (1567), Franckfurt am Main: Non vulganda consilia. Geheime Räht sol man nit offenbaren.
- Emblemata / Les emblemes (1584), Paris: Non vulganda consilia. QU'IL NE FAUT REVEler les secrets des grans.
- Emblemata (1591), Leiden: Non vulganda consilia.
- Declaracion magistral sobre las Emblemas de Andres Alciato (1615), Najera: NON VULGANDA CONSIlia ducum.
- Les emblemes (1615), Geneva/Cologny: Tenir caché le secret.
- Emblemata (1621), Padua: Non vulganda consilia.
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