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Terminus
Quadratum infoditur firmissima tessera saxum,
Stat cirrata super pectore imago tenus,
Et sese nulli profitetur cedere. talis
Terminus est,[1] homines qui scopus unus agit.
Est immota dies, praefixaque tempora fatis,
Deque ferunt primis ultima iudicium.[2]
A squared stone is set in the ground, an unshakable cube, and on it stands a curly-headed image, fashioned down to the chest. This declares that it yields to none. Such is Terminus, the one and only goal that governs men. There is an immovable day, times predetermined by fate, and the last times pronounce judgement on the first.
Related Emblems
Hide related emblems- Los Emblemas (1549), Lyon: El Termino.
- Emblemes (1549), Lyons: Le Terme.
- Emblemata (1550), Lyon: Terminus.
- Emblemata (1551), Lyon: Terminus.
- Emblematum libri II (Stockhamer) (1556), Lyon: Terminus.
- Toutes les emblemes (1558), Lyon: Le terme.
- Liber emblematum ... Kunstbuch (1567), Franckfurt am Main: Terminus. Laack. Termin.
- Emblemata / Les emblemes (1584), Paris: Terminus. Le Terme.
- Emblemata (1591), Leiden: Terminus.
- Declaracion magistral sobre las Emblemas de Andres Alciato (1615), Najera: TERMINUS.
- Les emblemes (1615), Geneva/Cologny: Le Dieu Termine.
- Emblemata (1621), Padua: Terminus.
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- beard [31A534] Search | Browse Iconclass
- chest, bust ) [31A222] Search | Browse Iconclass
- coat, cape [41D212] Search | Browse Iconclass
- inscription [49L8] Search | Browse Iconclass
- low hill country [25H114] Search | Browse Iconclass
- old man [31D16] Search | Browse Iconclass
- pedestal of a piece of sculpture (perhaps in the form of a herm) [48C244] Search | Browse Iconclass
- piece of sculpture, reproduction of a piece of sculpture [48C24] Search | Browse Iconclass
- proverbs, sayings, etc. (with TEXT) [86(NULLI CEDO)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- symbols of Death [31F10] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Terminus [96A16] Search | Browse Iconclass
- trees (+ stem, trunk) [25G3(+21)] Search | Browse Iconclass
Relating to the text:
- Deity, God (in general) ~ Christian religion [11A] Search | Browse Iconclass
- End; 'Fine' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept) [51FF5(+4)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Fate, Doom (+ emblematical representation of concept) [54FF12(+4)] Search | Browse Iconclass
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