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Nullum malum solum: vel,
Uno bono sublato, mille existunt.[1]
Nothing is purely bad: or, if we take one good thing away, a thousand spring up to replace it.
Bien qu’Hercule eust dompté les monstres les plus forts,
Si est ce qu’il receut de plus cruel efforts
Combattant contre l’Hydre, entant qu’à chasque teste
Dont il estoit vainqueur, une autre renaissoit.
Et tant plus en couppant sur l’une il s’efforçoit,
Tant plus en ce serpent la malice s’appreste.
Ainsi sont tourmentez les pauvres malheureux: Link to an image of this page [I6v p140]Car un mal redoublé tombe tousjours sur eux,
Et pour un evité, ils en reçoivent mille:
Ainsi pour un proces qu’on vuide en jugement,
Nous en voyons un cent naistre subitement,
Tant le champ des procez est plaisant & fertile.
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- (2) the Hydra of Lerna is killed by Hercules [94L322] Search | Browse Iconclass
- adult man (+ nude human being) [31D14(+89)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- arm held downwards (+ holding something) [31A2515(+933)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- arm stretched forward (+ holding something) [31A2512(+933)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- attributes of Hercules (with NAME) [94L8(CLUB)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- beard [31A534] Search | Browse Iconclass
- beasts of prey, predatory animals: bear (+ dying animal; death of animal; dead animal) [25F23(BEAR)(+63)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- beasts of prey, predatory animals: bear (+ lying animal) [25F23(BEAR)(+536)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- beasts of prey, predatory animals: lion (+ dying animal; death of animal; dead animal) [25F23(LION)(+63)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- beasts of prey, predatory animals: lion (+ lying animal) [25F23(LION)(+536)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- beasts of prey, predatory animals: lion (+ skin, fleece, hide, fur, leather) [25F23(LION)(+351)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- children of Echidna [92I7491] Search | Browse Iconclass
- fabulous animals ~ snakes (aspic, dragon, hydrus, hydra, amphisbaena, horned snake, cerastes) (+ head and face) [25FF42(+41)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- fire (one of the four elements) [21C] Search | Browse Iconclass
- flame [41B121] Search | Browse Iconclass
- fruits: apple [25G21(APPLE)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- leaning forward [31A2321] Search | Browse Iconclass
- looking downwards [31B6212] Search | Browse Iconclass
- man (showing himself) undressed, quasi-nude [41D91] Search | Browse Iconclass
- man killing animal [34F12] Search | Browse Iconclass
- mountains [25H11] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Nemean lion [92I74911] Search | Browse Iconclass
- one leg in front of the other (+ standing) [31A2621(+51)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- smoke [41B162] Search | Browse Iconclass
- the golden apples of the Hesperides [93F3] Search | Browse Iconclass
- torch (+ kindling a light; lit, burning light, lamp, candle) [41B32(+1)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- trampling, treading, stamping on someone or something [31A2726] Search | Browse Iconclass
- trees [25G3] Search | Browse Iconclass
- weapons for striking a blow: club [45C12(CLUB)] Search | Browse Iconclass
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- Bad, Evil, Wrong [52B5112] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Fruitfulness, Fertility, Fecundity; 'Fecondità' (Ripa) [58A3] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Good, Right [52B5111] Search | Browse Iconclass
- litigation, legal proceedings, lawsuit [44G41] Search | Browse Iconclass
- multiplication [49D123] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Multitude (+ emblematical representation of concept) [51H3(+4)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Unhappiness; 'Infelicità' (Ripa) [56BB2] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Vice, Evil, Sin; 'Peccato' (Ripa) [11N1] Search | Browse Iconclass
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