Un Eléphant qui écrase un Serpent qui a voulu le mordre
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Sources and parallels
- De la Feuille, Devises Et Emblemes 1697 [web], p/no. 32/3
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An elephant tramples a snake- trunked animals: elephant (+ animal trampling, treading, stamping on someone or something) [25F25(ELEPHANT)(+5227)]
- snakes (+ dying animal; death of animal; dead animal) [25F42(+63)]
- groups of trees [25G11]
- low hill country [25H114]
- Revenge, Requital, Retaliation; 'Vendetta' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept) [57AA741(+4)]
- Punishment; 'Castigo', 'Pena', 'Punitione' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept) [57BB13(+4)]
- proverbs, sayings, etc. (with TEXT) [86(NON IMPUNE FERES)]