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EX SORDIDIS PARENTIBUS, HONESTI LIBERI.
NOBLE CHILDREN OF VILE PARENTS
Integer, & bellus puer hic est natus, utrinque
Ex patre Centauro, matreque subtus Equa.
Barbaricis istud plerunque parentibus ortos
Ingenuo pueros indicat ingenio.[1]
A decent and fine lad is born from such a beastly marriage: his father a Centaur, his mother a mare below. This, then, symbolizes that children of a fine and liberal talent are born most often from barbaric parents.
Notes:
1. Play on the consonance between ingenuus (noble, free), and ingenium (genius).
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- (high) hill [25H113] Search | Browse Iconclass
- centaurs (in general) [92L71] Search | Browse Iconclass
- child [31D112] Search | Browse Iconclass
- city-view in general; 'veduta' [25I1] Search | Browse Iconclass
- clouds [26A] Search | Browse Iconclass
- mound, verge [25H1131] Search | Browse Iconclass
- river [25H213] Search | Browse Iconclass
- trees [25G3] Search | Browse Iconclass
- water-birds (with NAME) [25F36(DUCK)] Search | Browse Iconclass
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- Nobility; 'Nobiltą' (Ripa) [57A68] Search | Browse Iconclass
- parental care [42A461] Search | Browse Iconclass
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