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EMBLEMA XXXVI.

Niliacus qualis serpens fugientibus instat,
Instantes fugiens quanlibet ante ferox:
Sic vetus ille draco, saevus mortalibus hostis,
Te reprimente fugit, te fugiente premit.[1]

Just as the serpent of the Nile [i.e. the crocodile] chases those who flee, but however fierce flees those who chase it, so that old serpent [i.e. Satan], the savage enemy of mortals, flees if you attack him and attacks you if you flee.

Notes:

1.  The crocodiles in this image, like the motto for emblem 14, may have been derived from Bocchi, Symbolicarum Quaestionum libri quinque, 4.99.



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