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Quod non capit Christus, rapit fiscus.
What Christ does not receive, the exchequer seizes
EMBLEMA CXLVII.
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.
1. This is based on Suetonius, Life of the Deified Vespasian 16.
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Related Emblems
Hide related emblems- Emblematum liber (28th February, 1531), Augsburg: QUOD NON CAPIT CHRISTUS rapit fiscus.
- Emblematum liber (6th April, 1531), Augsburg: QUOD NON CAPIT CHRISTUS rapit fiscus.
- Emblematum liber (1534), Augsburg: QUOD NON CAPIT CHRISTUS rapit fiscus.
- Emblematum libellus (1534), Paris: Quod non capit Christus, rapit fiscus.
- Livret des emblemes (1536), Paris: Quod non capit Christus, rapit fiscus. Ce qui nest a Christ, est au fisc
- Les Emblemes (1539), Paris: Quod non capit Christus, rapit fiscus. Ce qui nest a Christ, est au fisc.
- Les Emblemes (1542), Paris: Quod non capit Christus, rapit fiscus. Ce qui nest a Christ, est au fisc.
- Emblematum libellus (1542), Paris: Quod non capit Christus, rapit fiscus. Unrecht gewunnen guet gedeyet nit.
- Los Emblemas (1549), Lyon: Que lo que no cabe en CHRISTO lleva el Fisco.
- Emblemes (1549), Lyons: Ce que ne prent l'Eglise, le Fisc ravit.
- Emblemata (1550), Lyon: Quod non capit Christus, rapit fiscus.
- Emblemata (1551), Lyon: Quod non capit Christus, rapit fiscus.
- Diverse imprese (1551), Lyon: Quali sono i Consiglieri de Principi.
- Emblematum libri II (Stockhamer) (1556), Lyon: Quod non capit Christus, rapit fiscus.
- Toutes les emblemes (1558), Lyon: Ce que ne prent lEglise, le Fisc ravit.
- Liber emblematum ... Kunstbuch (1567), Franckfurt am Main: Quod non capit Christus, rapit fiscus. Was Gott nit nimt, führt der Teuffel weg.
- Emblemata / Les emblemes (1584), Paris: Quod non capit Christus, rapit fiscus. Ce que Christ ne prend, le fisc l'attrape.
- Declaracion magistral sobre las Emblemas de Andres Alciato (1615), Najera: QUOD NON CAPIT CHRISTUS, rapit fiscus.
- Les emblemes (1615), Geneva/Cologny: Ce qui n'est à christ , est au Fisc.
- Emblemata (1621), Padua: Quod non capit Christus, rapit fiscus.
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Iconclass Keywords
Relating to the image:
- adult man [31D14] Search | Browse Iconclass
- adult man (+ more than eight persons) [31D14(+79)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- arm stretched forward (+ holding something) [31A2512(+933)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- brush, sponge, etc. (toilet articles) [31A5462] Search | Browse Iconclass
- clothing for the upper part of the body [41D223] Search | Browse Iconclass
- clouds [26A] Search | Browse Iconclass
- coelenterata: sponge [25F75(SPONGE)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- crowd, mob [46A7] Search | Browse Iconclass
- crown (symbol of sovereignty) [44B191] Search | Browse Iconclass
- gear for legs and feet (+ men's clothes) [41D233(+81)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- king [44B113] Search | Browse Iconclass
- ladder [41A343] Search | Browse Iconclass
- mantle, gown, dress (symbol of sovereignty) [44B197] Search | Browse Iconclass
- on the scaffold or place of execution [44G342] Search | Browse Iconclass
- pressing (industrial process) (+ variant) [47C521(+0)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- sceptre, staff (symbol of sovereignty) [44B192] Search | Browse Iconclass
- terrace [41A351] Search | Browse Iconclass
- trousers, breeches (+ men's clothes) [41D231(+81)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- violent death by hanging (+ execution (by judicial verdict)) [31E2355(+6)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- water (one of the four elements) [21D] Search | Browse Iconclass
- working class, labourers [46A17] Search | Browse Iconclass
Relating to the text:
- bad government [44B62] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Christ [11D] Search | Browse Iconclass
- financial administration ~ taxes [44D23] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Greed, Covetousness, Cupidity; 'Cupidità' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept) [55CC11(+4)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- official; civil servant; functionary (in general) [44D40] Search | Browse Iconclass
- ruler and his subjects [44B127] Search | Browse Iconclass
- tax payment [44D211] Search | Browse Iconclass
- thief [44G54] Search | Browse Iconclass
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