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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ex Libris, post: 10689021, member: 14916&quot;]The death scene is called Mortis Certitudo (The Certainty of Death)</p><p><br /></p><p>This engraving illustrates the inevitability of death. A skeletal Death draws lots from an urn, handing fate to people of every rank—kings, soldiers, peasants alike—while cities burn in the background. The accompanying texts, drawn from Horace and rendered in Latin, Spanish, Dutch, Italian, and French, all echo the same truth: wealth, beauty, or noble birth offer no escape. The urn of fate ensures that sooner or later every life is summoned to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charon" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charon" rel="nofollow">Charon’s</a> boat. Death is certain; only the time, place, and manner remain unknown.</p><p><br /></p><p>Accompanying text:</p><p><br /></p><p>MORTIS CERTITVDO.</p><p><i>Lib</i>. 2.</p><p><i>Od</i>. 3.</p><p><i>Diuésne prisco natus ab Inacho</i>,</p><p><i>Nil interest, an pauper, &amp; infima</i></p><p><i>De gente sub dio morêris</i>,</p><p><i>Victima nil miserantis Orci</i>.</p><p><i>Omnes eôdem cogimur</i>: <i>omnium</i></p><p><i>Versatur vrna</i>: <i>seriùs ocyùs</i></p><p><i>Sors exitura, &amp; nos in æternum</i></p><p><i>Exsilium impositura cymbæ</i>.</p><p><i>Hic seruus, dum vixit, erat, nunc mortuus idem</i></p><p><i>Non quàm, tu Dari Magne, minora potest</i>.</p><p><br /></p><p><i>Lib</i>. 3.</p><p><i>Od</i>. 1.</p><p><i>Est, vt viro vir latiùs ordinet</i></p><p><i>Arbusta sulcis: hic generosior</i></p><p><i>Descendat in campum petitor:</i></p><p><i>Moribus hic, meliorque fama</i></p><p><i>Contendat: illi turba clientium</i></p><p><i>Sit maior.Æqua lege necessitas</i></p><p><i>Sortitur insignes, &amp; imos</i>.</p><p><i>Omne capax mouet vrna nomen</i>.</p><p><br /></p><p>Si es fuerça acudir todos</p><p>A la triste oficina de la muerte,</p><p>Que por diuersos modos</p><p>O mas corta, ò mas larga da vna suerte,</p><p>En que nos confiamos</p><p>Si de prestado enesta vida estamos?</p><p>La mas bella hermosura,</p><p>La iuuentud del mundo mas lozana,</p><p>Ya en agraz, ya madura,</p><p>Con la vejez la embarca esta tyrana,</p><p>Que vn flaco fundamento</p><p>Le deshaze sin manos qualquier viento.</p><p><br /></p><p>Ten baet niet of ghy sijt ghesproten</p><p>Van Cresus machtich rijck gheslacht /</p><p>Of van slecht volxken ongheacht /</p><p>Indien v naem (ghemeen int loten)</p><p>V vande doot wert voortghebracht:</p><p>Die t&#039; lot toeualt moet haest opbreecken /</p><p>Hoe cleyn van staet / of groot van pracht /</p><p>Want hier en gelt gheen wederspreecken.</p><p><br /></p><p><i>Certa è la morte, com&#039;incerto il Fato;</i></p><p><i>A loco, e à tempo ogni mortal ritroua</i>,</p><p><i>Ne l&#039;esser Creso, ò d&#039;alta stirpe nato</i>,</p><p><i>O di progenie humil rileua, ò gioua</i>,</p><p><i>S&#039;auien che fuor del&#039;vrna, ou&#039; ha notato</i>,</p><p><i>Ogni mortal, la sorte caui ò moua;</i></p><p><i>Poueri, e ricchi ad vn, piccioli e grandi</i></p><p><i>Riceuon le sue sorti, i suoi comandi</i>.</p><p><br /></p><p>La Mort, tost ou tard, nous deuale</p><p>Là bas vers la riue infernale.</p><p>Lors que lon tire nostre lot,</p><p>Il faut soudain trousser bagage</p><p>Pour au malpiteux matelot</p><p>d&#039;Acheron, demander passage.</p><p>Espoir de grace &amp; de pardon</p><p>N&#039;a place en la Cour de Pluton.</p><p><br /></p><p><i>Qui dessus la santé fonde trop d&#039;esperance</i>,</p><p><i>Couue souuent la mort au centre de son seing</i>,</p><p><i>Qu&#039;il faille à tous mourir; rien n&#039;est de plus certain:</i></p><p><i>Mais ou, quant, &amp; comment, nul n&#039;en tient asseurance</i>.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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