. Siluestri à Petrasancta Symbola heroica . (jeorg. Vlciflim 5 quia iracundiflimaE, 6c pro corporiscaptu pugnaciflimx funt apes; & quia regemfuum^quando aciem ducit, ftipant, ac tegunt, velutimodicellx Amazones, SficuUme exacumt roHriSy aptantque lacertos^ ^^^g^- Et circa regem^ atque tpfa adpr^toria denfef^ifcentt4>r^ magniscjue vocant clamoribus hoBem:idcirco ij Nobiles equites, Magno Duci Ferdi-NANDO fidam cuftodiam, 6c omnem fortitudinempromiferunt, fchemate apum, qux ante conflidumad lapillos^quafi ad cotem^ fpicula pro rege exacuant, E z Ale- 36 DE SYMBOLIS HEROICIS. ALEXANDER Medicev
. Siluestri à Petrasancta Symbola heroica . (jeorg. Vlciflim 5 quia iracundiflimaE, 6c pro corporiscaptu pugnaciflimx funt apes; & quia regemfuum^quando aciem ducit, ftipant, ac tegunt, velutimodicellx Amazones, SficuUme exacumt roHriSy aptantque lacertos^ ^^^g^- Et circa regem^ atque tpfa adpr^toria denfef^ifcentt4>r^ magniscjue vocant clamoribus hoBem:idcirco ij Nobiles equites, Magno Duci Ferdi-NANDO fidam cuftodiam, 6c omnem fortitudinempromiferunt, fchemate apum, qux ante conflidumad lapillos^quafi ad cotem^ fpicula pro rege exacuant, E z Ale- 36 DE SYMBOLIS HEROICIS. ALEXANDER Medicevs rliinocerotem proSymbolo habuitrqui paulo humilior elephan-to,&: tergo buxei coloris quafithorace perpetuomu-nitus , cornuque ofTeo prxgrandi ante nares arma-tus, obuio hofti transfodere ventrem folet; nifi ab eopriiis 5 circumied🅰 ad coUum probofcidis nexu, &quafi laqueo ^ ftranguletur. Eft vero exitus pugna^,aut vi^toria^aut mors decora: quia numquam/uper-ftite aduerfario , de pugna redit j fed aut vincit^ autcadit. Ideo Alexander Medicevs ei adfcripfitHifpanice : NoN redeo , Nisi vicerim. etiamipfe aciem ingrediens^ aut profligaturus hoftem, autin prxUo manfurus. Ferdi- LIBER PRIMVS. 37
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