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fol. 105v

Book 3, 10

The Golden Age - man lives happily, gathering seeds and fruits under the reign of Saturn - a symbolic representation of the peaceful situation Numa Pompilius aims to achieve

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fol. 113r

Book 3, 13

While the Roman girl Tarpeia is fetching water outside the citadel of the Sabines, she is bribed by Titus Tatius into opening the gates of the city; a tree with pieces of armour and a statue of Jupiter (background)

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fol. 127v

Book 3, 17

Quintus Servilius (Ahala), on the order of Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus, kills the prefect Spurius Melius, accused of aspiring to tyranny on account of his uncommon liberality to the populace, demonstrated by the distribution of wheat among the people

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98B(MAELIUS, SP.)5
98B(MAELIUS, SP.)68
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fol. 187r

Book 4, 7

Counsellors explaining to King Astyages his dream of a vine growing out of his daughter Mandane: her son Cyrus will overthrow him; (Astyages will then order Harpagus to kill the baby Cyrus; Harpagus passes the assignment on to the shepherd Mithridates, whose wife willsubstitute Cyrus for her own still-born child); Mandane, the pregnant daughter of Astyages with a vine growing out of her abdomen; the infant Cyrus suckled by a wolf (background)

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98B(CYRUS)12
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Book 4, 12

God the Father sheltering men and animals under his mantle

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