
Prohibete nefas.
It is a crime to restrain her.
L’Amphisbeine, monstrueus Serpent, (ayant une
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teste en la queue, ainsi qu’au devant, de laquelle il mord,
s’avance, & recule, quand il lui plait) pourroit bien estre
la Devise d’un tas de traitres à deus visages, & enne-
mis domestiques: desquelz le danger est si grand, qu’il
n’y ha espece de peste plus eficace pour nuire, que telle
race de gens: selon Cicero. Qui sont les mechans dont
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dit aussi le commun proverbe:
Tel par devant fait bon visage,
Qui par derrier mord & outrage.
[Marginalia - link to text]Aristote.
Pline.
[Marginalia - link to text]Cicero.
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- 'amphisbaena' (snake with head at both ends) [25FF424] Search | Browse Iconclass
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- (story of) Cicero [98B(CICERO)] Search | Browse Iconclass
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- Dissimulation, Hypocrisy; 'Hippocresia', 'Simulatione' (Ripa) [57AA611] Search | Browse Iconclass
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- proverbs, sayings, etc. (with TEXT) [86(PROHIBITE NEFAS)] Search | Browse Iconclass
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