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La Nymphe Clitie couchée & languissante à terre, & près d’elle une Fleur de Tournesol regardant le Soleil
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La Nymphe Clitie couchée & languissante à terre, & près d’elle une Fleur de Tournesol regardant le Soleil
Sic dignus amari
Il mérite d’etre aimé même aux dépens de la vie
Merita d’esser’ amato al costa della propria vita
Es digno de ser amado a la costa de la vida
Zo is hy vvaard bemind te zyn
Thus he deserves to be loved
Also ist er vvürdig geliebt zu vverden
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Literature
Sources and parallels
- De la Feuille, Devises Et Emblemes 1697 [web]
, p/no. 33/12
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Clytie changed into a sunflower: on account of Apollo's contempt the Oceanid Clytie changes into a sunflower- sun represented as face, wheel, etc.
[24A6]
- flowers: sunflower
[25G41(SUNFLOWER)]
- sitting on the ground - AA - female human figure
[31AA2351]
- Worth, Value (+ emblematical representation of concept)
[54B6(+4)]
- (personifications and symbolic representations of) Love; 'Amore (secondo Seneca)' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of
concept)
[56F2(+4)]
- proverbs, sayings, etc. (with TEXT)
[86(SIC DIGNUS AMARI)]
- other Oceanids (with NAME)
[92K27(CLYTIE)]
- Clytie changed into a sunflower: on account of Apollo's contempt the Oceanid Clytie changes into a sunflower (heliotrope)
(Ovid, Metamorphoses IV 268)
[97BB1]