Negare iussi, pernegare non iussi [90]

Translations
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Ik heb bevolen te weigeren, maar niet om te blijven weigeren. |
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I ordered to refuse, but not to keep refusing. |
Literature
- Praz, Seventeenth-Century Imagery
, p. 107
- Sebastiàn, Lectura crítica
, p. 41
Sources and parallels
- Negare jussi, pernegare non jussi [52] (in: Otto Vaenius, Emblemata aliquot selectiora amatoria (1618))
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Parallel for the pictura (mirrored) and the Latin and French motto in: Deux Amours, dont l’un presente la foi à l’autre qui la refuse (in: Daniel de la Feuille, Devises et emblemes (1691))
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References, across this site, to this page:
- Deux Amours, dont l’un presente la foi à l’autre qui la refuse (in: Daniel de la Feuille, Devises et emblemes (1691))
- Negare jussi, pernegare non jussi [52] (in: Otto Vaenius, Emblemata aliquot selectiora amatoria (1618))
Iconclass
A cupid offers a basket, with two hands shaking, to another cupid who refuses and walks away- groups of trees
[25G11]

- (high) hill
[25H113]

- dale, valley
[25H12]

- landscape with tower or castle
[25I5]

- sitting on the ground
[31A2351]

- violent death by arrow(s) - EE - death not certain; wounded person
[31EE23461]

- shaking hands, 'dextrarum junctio'
[33A12]

- gifts being refused
[33A49]

- flight, running away; pursuing
[33B9]

- awakening love
[33C218]

- unsuccessful love affair; seduction
[33C219]

- lovesick lover
[33C971]

- container made of plant material other than wood: basket
[41A7751]

- archer's weapons: arrow
[45C15(ARROW)]

- quiver
[45C23]

- Acceptance (+ emblematical representation of concept)
[53B1(+4)]

- Rejection (+ emblematical representation of concept)
[53BB1(+4)]

- Unrequited Love (+ emblematical representation of concept)
[56FF22(+4)]

- proverbs, sayings, etc. (with TEXT)
[86(NEGARE IUSSI, PERNEGARE NON IUSSI)]

- other non-aggressive activities of Cupid
[92D156]

- suffering, misfortune of Cupid
[92D16]

- attributes of Cupid (with NAME)
[92D18(ARROW)]

- attributes of Cupid (with NAME)
[92D18(QUIVER)]

- companions of Cupid
[92D191]

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