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Iconclass-luokkakäsite: suffering, misfortune of Scylurus, king of Scythia
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Iconclass-tunnus | 98 B (SCYLURUS) 6 |
laajempi käsite | (story of) Scylurus, king of Scythia |
nimi | suffering, misfortune of Scylurus, king of Scythia |
suppeampi käsite | death of Scylurus: the Scythian king, on his deathbed, enjoins his eighty sons to break a bundle of rods (or arrows) tied together; when they can't do this, he breaks the rods one by one, thus teaching them that united they will be strong, divided weak |