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  • An episode in Juvenal's satire XII: in thanks for the escape of their mutual friend Catullus from a shipwreck, Juvenal shows to Corvinus a votive painting depicting Catullus's survival, while putti prepare to sacrifice animals as thank-offerings to the gods. Etching by W. Hollar after R. Streater.
  • Diogenes, being offered whatever he wants by Alexander the Great, asks Alexander to step aside so that he can see the sun: Alexander realizes that the person who desires little is happier than the person who demands much. Etching by S. Rosa.
  • Death as king shows a mirror to mankind. Engraving by John Payne, 1639.
  • De herba panacea, quam alii tabacum, alii petum aut Nicotianam vocant, brevis commentariolus. Quo admirandae ac prorsus divinae hujus peruanae stirpis facultates et usus explicantur / [Giles Everard].