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TEXT_EXPL_XML <p><term id="embstma_1667_11201"/>HERE <persName>DAMOCLES</persName>, desirous for to taste,<lb/>
        <term id="embstma_1667_11202"/>The princelie fare, of <persName>DIONYSIVS</persName> kinge,<lb/>
        In royall seate, was at the table plaste,<lb/>
        Where pages braue, all daintie cates did bringe:<lb/>
        His bed of goulde, with curious coueringes spred,<lb/>
        And cubbourdes ritche, with plate about his bed.<lb/>
        No where hee stay'de, but musique sweete did sounde;<lb/>
        <term id="embstma_1667_11203"/>No where hee went, but hee did odors smell;<lb/>
        Nowe in his pompe, when all thinges did abounde,<lb/>
        Being ask'd, if that this life did please him well:<lb/>
        Hee aunswere made, it was the heauen alone,<lb/>
        And that to it, all other liues weare none.<lb/>
        Then, did the king comaunde a naked sworde,<lb/>
        Vnto the roofe, shoulde with a heare bee knit:<lb/>
        <term id="embstma_1667_11204"/>That right shoulde hange, when hee was plac'd at bourde,<lb/>
        Aboue his head, where he did vse to sit:<lb/>
        Which when hee sawe, as one distracte with care,<lb/>
        Hee had no ioye in mirthe, nor daintie fare.<lb/>
        <pb n="embstma_1667_fac103"/>
        <term id="embstma_1667_11205"/>But did beseech, the Tyraunt for to giue,<lb/>
        His former state, and take his pompe againe:<lb/>
        By which, wee learne, that those who meanely liue,<lb/>
        Haue ofte more ioye, them those who rule and raigne:<lb/>
        But cheifelye, if like him they doe appeare,<lb/>
        Who night, and daye, of subiectes stoode in feare.<lb/>
        <term id="embstma_1667_11206"/>
        <term id="embstma_1667_11207"/>
        <gloss target="embstma_1667_11201" lang="la"><name type="author">Cicero</name> Tusc. 5 &amp;<lb/>
         <name type="author">Valer. Max.</name> &amp;<name type="author">Si-<lb/>
          don. Apollinaris</name><lb/>
         lib. 2. epist. 13.</gloss>
        <gloss target="embstma_1667_11202" lang="la"><name type="author">Horat.</name> Serm. 1.<lb/>
         Satyra. 1.<lb/>
         Qui fit <persName>Moecenas</persName>, vt<lb/>
         nemo, quam sibi fortem<lb/>
         Seu ratio dederit, seu<lb/>
         fors obiecerit, illa<lb/>
         Contentus viuat: laudet<lb/>
         diuersa sequentes?<lb/>
         O fortunati mercato-<lb/>
         res, grauis annis<lb/>
         Miles ait, &amp;c.</gloss>
        <gloss target="embstma_1667_11203" lang="la"><name type="author">Horat.</name> Carm. 3.<lb/>
         Ode 1.<lb/>
         Districtus ensis ceu su-<lb/>
         per impia<lb/>
         Ceruice pendet, non<lb/>
         Siculae dapes<lb/>
         Dulcem elaborabunt<lb/>
         saporem:<lb/>
         Non auium, cithará-<lb/>
         que cantus<lb/>
         Somnum reducent, &amp;c.</gloss>
        <gloss target="embstma_1667_11204" lang="la"><name type="author">Seneca</name> Oed.Act.3<lb/>
         Qui sceptra duro saeuus<lb/>
         imperio reget,<lb/>
         Timet timentes: metus<lb/>
         in auctorem redit.</gloss>
        <pb n="embstma_1667_fac103"/>
        <gloss target="embstma_1667_11205" lang="la"><name type="author">Claud.</name> 4. honor.<lb/>
         Qui terret, plusisteti-<lb/>
         met: sors ista tyrannis<lb/>
         Conuenit, inuideant cla-<lb/>
         ris fortésque trucident,<lb/>
         Muniti gladiis viuant,<lb/>
         septíque venenis<lb/>
         Ancipítes habeant ar-<lb/>
         ses, trepidiq. minentur.</gloss>
        <gloss target="embstma_1667_11206" lang="la">Periander apud <name type="author">Au-<lb/>
         sonium.</name><lb/>
         Multu terribilis caueto<lb/>
         multos.</gloss>
        <gloss target="embstma_1667_11207" lang="la"><name type="author">Aelianus</name> de tyran-<lb/>
         nis lib. 10. cap. 5. &amp;<lb/>
         lib. 6. cap. 13. De<lb/>
         Var. Hist.</gloss>
       </p>
      
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IIHIM GUL
; EMBLEMS
; ILL_BOOK
; PLANTIN
CAPTION_EN The sword of Damocles, hanging from one hair taken from a horse's tail
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MOTTO_LA In sortis suae contemptores
HIM GUL
; EMBLEMS
; ILL_BOOK
; PLANTIN
IC 26A
; 31A2763(+0)
; 44B12721
; 45C13(SWORD)
; 47D8(THREAD)
; 54F12(+4)
; 57BB21(+4)
; 86(IN SORTIS SUAE CONTEMPTORES)
; 98B(DIONYSIUS I, THE ELDER)3
INTERP_DAL On the despisers of their own lot
URL_IMAGE embstma_1667_pic102.jpg
ID embstma_1667_emblem112
MOTTO_LA_NORM In sortis suae contemptores
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