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Une Autruche qui avale un Fer de Cheval
Translations
Literature
Sources and parallels
- De la Feuille, Devises Et Emblemes 1697 [web]
, p/no. 41/7 - Rollenhagen, Nucleus emblematum selectissimorum, bk/embl. I/36
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An ostrich with a horse-shoe in its beak- walker and runner birds: ostrich (+ animals eating and drinking)
[25F38(OSTRICH)(+45)]
- horseshoe
[47B11111]
- Constancy, Tenacity; 'Costanza', 'Tenacité' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept)
[53A21(+4)]
- Invincibility (+ emblematical representation of concept)
[54A71(+4)]
- Virtuousness; 'Amor di Virtù', 'Attione virtuosa', 'Guida sicura de' veri honori', 'Virtù', 'Virtù insuperabile' (Ripa) (+
emblematical representation of concept)
[57A6(+4)]
- proverbs, sayings, etc. (with TEXT)
[86(VIRTUS DURISSIMA CONQUIT)]