
EMBLEMA VI.
Phoenicem[1], si vera ferunt, mors ipsa refingit,
Huic sit ut unus avi vitaque morsque rogus.
Ite ô carnifices, Sanctorum sancta cremate
Corpora. quos vultis perdere flamma parit.[2]
For, if they speak true, death itself remakes the phoenix with the effect that one fire [funeral pyre] is life and death for this bird. Go, O executioners, burn the holy bodies of the Saints. To those whom you want to destroy, the flame gives life.
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- fabulous animals ~ birds (with NAME) [25FF3(PHOENIX)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- fire (one of the four elements) [21C] Search | Browse Iconclass
- mountain-top, peak [25H1121] Search | Browse Iconclass
Relating to the text:
- ash [41B152] Search | Browse Iconclass
- death by martyrdom [31E23(+5)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- executioner, hangman [44G32] Search | Browse Iconclass
- flame [41B121] Search | Browse Iconclass
- life versus death [31E5] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Rebirth, Renaissance, Regeneration [58B4] Search | Browse Iconclass
- saints [11H] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Torment; 'Tribulatione' (Ripa) [56BB12] Search | Browse Iconclass
- torture [44G33] Search | Browse Iconclass
- violent death by burning at the stake; pyre [31E23121] Search | Browse Iconclass
- violent death ~ maltreatment, torture [31E235] Search | Browse Iconclass
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