Geffrey Whitney, A choice of emblemes (Leiden, 1586)

Emblem 117

When Marcus Furius Camillus laid siege to Falerii its treacherous schoolmaster offered his own pupils as hostages to the romans: Camillus refuses and has him chastised by his pupils: he is stripped and the children drive him back to their city with sticks

Facsimile

Notes and related emblems

• Sinon - mentioned in the commentatio - is not the name of the schoolmaster but the traitor who let the Greek soldiers out of the Trojan horse

Iconclass

• 25I12 prospect of city, town panorama, silhouette of city
• 25I146 city-walls
• 31A247 looking over the shoulder
• 31A2511(+927) arm raised upward (+ punishing)
• 31A2511(+933) arm raised upward (+ holding something)
• 31AA2511(+933) arm raised upward - AA - both arms or hands (+ holding something)
• 31A2512 arm stretched forward
• 31A2512(+931) arm stretched forward (+ indicating, pointing at)
• 31A2515(+933) arm held downwards (+ holding something)
• 31AA25171 arm bent behind the back - AA - both arms or hands
• 31A25552 index finger forwards, pointing, indicating
• 31A26211(+51) one leg in front of the other, walking position (+ standing)
• 31A2711 walking
• 31A534 beard
• 31B6211 looking upwards
• 31D11221(+78) boy (child between toddler and youth) (+ eight persons)
• 31D11221(+89) boy (child between toddler and youth) (+ nude human being)
• 31D14 adult man
• 32B311(FALISCI) indigenous European peoples (FALISCI)
• 41B162 smoke
• 41D27(+81) drapery, draped garment, 'Gewandgebung' (+ men's clothes)
• 41D27(+83) drapery, draped garment, 'Gewandgebung' (+ children's clothes)
• 41D91 man (showing himself) undressed, quasi-nude
• 44C19 traitor to one's country
• 44G01 symbols and allegories of law; 'Legge', 'Legge civile' (Ripa)
• 44G3121 prisoner with hands bound
• 44G321(ROD) instruments of torture, execution or punishment (ROD)
• 44G321(WHIP) instruments of torture, execution or punishment (WHIP)
• 44G3731(+0) flogging, scourging (in public) (+ variant)
• 45A10 symbols, allegories of war; 'Guerra' (Ripa)
• 45C41 (military) camp with tents
• 45D311(+22) commander-in-chief, general, marshal (+ cavalry, horsemen)
• 45F9 treason
• 45K21 siege
• 46C131 riding a horse, ass, or mule; rider, horseman
• 46C13141 horse
• 49B24 teacher and pupil
• 49B2522 pupil punishing teacher
• 57AA6142(+4) Betrayal (+ emblematical representation of concept)
• 57BB13(+4) Punishment; 'Castigo', 'Pena', 'Punitione' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept)
• 61E(FALERII) names of cities and villages (FALERII)
• 86(HABET ET BELLUM SUAS LEGES) proverbs, sayings, etc. (HABET ET BELLUM SUAS LEGES)
• 94H212 Sinon, a Greek pretending to be a deserter, is brought in
• 98B(CAMILLUS)41 Marcus Furius Camillus has the schoolmaster of Falerii chastised by his pupils: he is stripped and the children drive him back to their city with sticks

Sources

Record ID: embstma_1667_emblem117
This emblem on the Iconclass site: https://iconclass.org/view/embstma_1667_emblem117
Copy: University Library, Glasgow, Stirling Maxwell 1667