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Empta dolore voluptas.
Pleasure bought with pain.
Stellatam ostentat caudam Iunonius ales,
Sed natibus monstrum caelat, inestque vorax.
Ducitur à tergo vinctus qui pascit edacem,
Quicquid erat lucri prodidit inque feram.
Cui meretrix forma placet, utque colatur inescat,
Perpetuò ad turpes cogeris esse nates.
Has alis, & semper veneraris donec abundas,
Pauperior cùm fis, pellit amica foras.
Heus fuge scorta procul, nocet empta dolore voluptas.
È Venere & Baccho, semina mortis eunt.
The bird of Juno shows her starry tail, but hides a monster in his buttocks, and he is greedy. The one who feeds him is pulled in chains, and wastes all his wealth on the wild creature. If you find a prostitute worth possessing because of her beauty, and are lured into worshipping her, you’ll be forced to spend all your life on your ugly buttocks. You feed her, and you’ll be up for sale as long as you are rich; when you are poorer, your girlfriend will drive you out of doors. Flee far from whores! Bought pleasure harms with pain. The seeds of death are born from wine and women.
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- (high) hill [25H113] Search | Browse Iconclass
- adult man [31D14] Search | Browse Iconclass
- anthropomorphic beings (legendary or not) with heads, limbs or organs of an abnormal number, in abnormal places or of an abnormal shape) (+ mouth) [31A44(+114)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- arm stretched forward (+ other neutral connotations) [31A2512(+939)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- arm stretched forward (+ reaching, handing, giving) [31A2512(+9341)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- attributes of Juno (with NAME) [92C18(PEACOCK)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- barefoot [41D2339] Search | Browse Iconclass
- beard [31A534] Search | Browse Iconclass
- bird on a cord or string [34B133] Search | Browse Iconclass
- clouds [26A] Search | Browse Iconclass
- dog (+ audible means of communication of animal(s): roaring, crying, singing, barking, mewing, neighing, chirping, etc.) [34B11(+949)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- face [31A2211] Search | Browse Iconclass
- giving food [41C111] Search | Browse Iconclass
- goat (+ fighting animals; aggressive relations) [47I214(+951)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- groups of plants (herbs) [25G13] Search | Browse Iconclass
- head bent forward; bowing [31A244] Search | Browse Iconclass
- kneeling figure [31A233] Search | Browse Iconclass
- landscape with ruins [25I9] Search | Browse Iconclass
- ornamental birds: peacock [25F35(PEACOCK)] Search | Browse Iconclass
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- (story of) Bacchus (Dionysus), Liber [92L1] Search | Browse Iconclass
- (story of) Venus (Aphrodite) [92C4] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Beauty; 'Bellezza' (Ripa) [51D4] Search | Browse Iconclass
- buttocks, 'partes posteriores' [31A2237] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Destruction (+ emblematical representation of concept) [58AA1(+4)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Licentiousness, Lasciviousness; 'Lascivia', 'Licenza' (Ripa) [57AA51] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Mortality, Extinction of Life [58BB1] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Pain, Sorrow, Sadness; 'Dolore', 'Dolore di Zeusi' (Ripa) [56BB1] Search | Browse Iconclass
- passions, emotions, affections [32A80] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Pleasure, Enjoyment, Joy; 'Allegrezza', 'Allegrezza da le medaglie', 'Allegrezza, letitia e giubilo', 'Diletto', 'Piacere', 'Piacere honesto' (Ripa) [56B1] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Poverty; 'Povertà', 'Povertà del doni', 'Povertà in uno ch'habbia bell'ingegno' (Ripa) [55BB1] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Vice, Evil, Sin; 'Peccato' (Ripa) [11N1] Search | Browse Iconclass
- whore, prostitute [33C52] Search | Browse Iconclass
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