When the Romaine Consuls went abroad there were certaine men appointed to go be- fore them adorned with triumphant crownes, and garlands, and with bundles of yong and tender rods, hauing two Pollaxes in their hands, signifying by this spectacle the tri- umphes of that most noble region of Italie, and the whole gouernment of the world, and also that the Romaines by their great wise- dome, peace, and affection to the common weale, purchased to themselues no litle praise and dignitie. But the iron wreathes, & chaines which you see holding the speares, and staues that they cannot fall one from another, doe signifie the bondage and captiuity wherewith from that time to this day, Italy is brought to ruine by the wickednes of sedition and ciuill dissention.
PREV embmne_pae1591_emblem033 SEQ 34 PARENT embmne_pae1591 TYPE emblem pictura TIPE emblempictura MOTTO_EN_NORM Men say that this is yet extant in Rome NEXT embmne_pae1591_emblem035 IIHIM MNE ; MNE_EMB CAPTION_EN Two laurel wreaths hanging from fasces which are connected by a chain with locks SOURCE_FILE embmne_pae1591.xml LINK_FACSIMILE embmne_pae1591_fac072 MOTTO_LAHoc Latio restare canunt.