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Virtutis radix amor [17]
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Translations
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De wortel [basis] van de deugd is de liefde. |
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Love is the root [basis] of virtue. |
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Plato
Een ziel die in een lichaam is ondergedompeld, wordt gewekt door de prikkels van Amor en hieruit ontstaat het eerste verlangen
naar het goede te doen. [Plato, Eros?] |
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Plato
A soul that is stuck in a body, is roused up by the stimuli of Eros and from this the first impulses to honourable deeds are
taken. [Plato, Eros?] |
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Cicero, De oratore 1, 30, 134
Zonder liefde zal niemand in het leven ooit iets buitengewoons bereiken. |
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Cicero, De oratore 1, 30, 134
Without love no man will ever attain anything in life that is out of the common. |
Literature
- Bagley, Hercules
, pp. 82-83
- Henkel and Schöne, Emblemata, col. 1648
- Moseley, Century of Emblems, p. 133
- Sebastiàn, Lectura crítica, p. 21
Sources and parallels
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Parallel for the subscriptio in: Des eenes glans des anders brandt [17] (in: Pieter Cornelisz. Hooft, Emblemata amatoria (1611))
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- Virtutis radix amor [14] (in: Otto Vaenius, Emblemata aliquot selectiora amatoria (1618))
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- Hercules and the Hydra: Tempera te tempor. [81] (in: Otto Vaenius, Q. Horatii Flacci Emblemata (1612))
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Love has the power to bring about changes: Amor elegantiae pater. [52] (in: Jacob Cats, Sinne- en minnebeelden (1627))
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Love has the power to bring about changes: Amor elegantiae pater. [51] (in: Jacob Cats, Proteus (1618))
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Source for: Virtutis radix amor [14] (in: Otto Vaenius, Emblemata aliquot selectiora amatoria (1618))
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Hercules as personification of Virtue also in: Virtute duce [27] (in: Otto Vaenius, Amorum emblemata (1608))
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References, across this site, to this page:
- Amor elegantiae pater. [51] (in: Jacob Cats, Proteus (1618))
- Amor elegantiae pater. [52] (in: Jacob Cats, Sinne- en minnebeelden (1627))
- Des eenes glans des anders brandt [17] (in: Pieter Cornelisz. Hooft, Emblemata amatoria (1611))
- Virtute duce [27] (in: Otto Vaenius, Amorum emblemata (1608))
- Tempera te tempor. [81] (in: Otto Vaenius, Q. Horatii Flacci Emblemata (1612))
- Virtutis radix amor [14] (in: Otto Vaenius, Emblemata aliquot selectiora amatoria (1618))
- Virtutis radix amor [14] (in: Otto Vaenius, Emblemata aliquot selectiora amatoria (1618))
Iconclass
Hercules leaning on his club and with the Hydra at his feet, is hit by an arrow from cupid's bow- trees
[25G3]
- (high) hill
[25H113]
- violent death by arrow(s) - EE - death not certain; wounded person
[31EE23461]
- archer's weapons: arrow
[45C15(ARROW)]
- archer's weapons: bow
[45C15(BOW)]
- quiver
[45C23]
- (personifications and symbolic representations of) Love; 'Amore (secondo Seneca)' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of
concept)
[56F2(+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(VIRTUTIS RADIX AMOR)]
- 'Omnia vincit Amor', Love the conqueror, Love triumphant
[92D1511]
- Cupid shooting a dart (+ variant)
[92D1521(+0)]
- attributes of Cupid (with NAME)
[92D18(ARROW)]
- attributes of Cupid (with NAME)
[92D18(BOW)]
- attributes of Cupid (with NAME)
[92D18(QUIVER)]
- (2) the Hydra of Lerna is killed by Hercules
[94L322]
- Hercules as personification of Virtue
[94L71]