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Upper center in (gold?): AQVILA IN NVBIBVS. (“An eagle in the clouds.” Erasmus, _Opera Omnia_, 2:2:342 (1.9.20) (trans. Bass 2019, 22); center right in (gold?): .II.; birds in image numbered .1. and .2., in red ink; center right on stone block in image, in black ink: GESTABVNT TIMIDAS ALIORVM SCVTA COLVMBAS : / MAGNANIMI CLYPIVM CAESARIS ISTA DECENT. (“The shields of others will carry timid doves; those [eagles] of yours [alone] fit the shield of magnanimous Caesar.”) (trans. Bass 2019, 21); lower center on rock in image, in black ink: .G.HF.Ao.76.; lower center in red ink: AQVILA NON CAPTAT MVSCAS.
Facing page: Upper center in black ink: Ne erigas oculos tuos ad opes, quas no[n] potes habere: quia / faciunt sibi pennas quali Aquilae, et volabunt In Coelum; lower center in black ink: Tentanda via est, qua me quoq[ue] possum / Tollere humo, via q[ue] virum volitare supra ora.

Provenance

Emperor Rudolph of Austria; Lessing J. Rosenwald, Alverthorpe, PA; gift to NGA, 1987.

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