
Phitone perempto.
The serpent being slain.
Venant à decliner l’Empire Rommein, & les anti-
ques coutumes à se changer, principalement quant à

porter en guerre, avec l’enseigne de l’Aigle, à savoir
celles du Loup, du Minotaure, du Cheval, & du San-
gler fut mise sur celle du Dragon: (amplement men-
cionnee par Claudian) laquelle pouvoit representer &
sinifier Vigilance.
[Marginalia - link to text]Claudian.
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Relating to the image:
- dragon [25FF411] Search | Browse Iconclass
- flame [41B121] Search | Browse Iconclass
- sceptre, staff (symbol of sovereignty) [44B192] Search | Browse Iconclass
Relating to the text:
- (story of) the Minotaur [95A(MINOTAUR)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Alertness, Vigilance; 'Guardia', 'Vigilanza', 'Vigilanza per difendersi & oppugnare altri' (Ripa) [52A23] Search | Browse Iconclass
- beasts of prey, predatory animals (with NAME) [25F23(WOLF)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- fabulous animals ~ snakes (aspic, dragon, hydrus, hydra, amphisbaena, horned snake, cerastes) [25FF42] Search | Browse Iconclass
- hoofed animals (with NAME) [25F24(HORSE)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- male persons from classical history (with NAME) [98B(CLAUDIAN)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- predatory birds (with NAME) [25F33(EAGLE)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- proverbs, sayings, etc. (with TEXT) [86(PHITONE PEREMPTO)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Rome (one of the four world empires) [23S14] Search | Browse Iconclass
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