Book Title: Andreae Alciati emblematvm libellvs.

Author: Alciati, Andrea, 1492-1550

Image Title: Making Good Speed

Description: The pictura of this emblem by the Italian jurist and writer Andrea Alciati (1492 – 1550 CE) features an arrow around which is wound a remora, or suckerfish, which was a creature believed by the ancients to have the power of slowing the course of ships to which it attached itself. The subscriptio regards this conjunction as figuring the counsel not to be too impetuous or too sluggish.

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