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[Bias of Priene.] Bias weinet, indem er jemanden zum Tode verurtheilet. Bias, capitis aliquem damnans, lacrymatur. vid. Srobaeus sermone 44.

[Bias of Priene.] Bias weinet, indem er jemanden zum Tode verurtheilet. Bias, capitis aliquem damnans, lacrymatur. vid. Srobaeus sermone 44.Praenobilissimo Dicasterio Civitatis primariae Gedanensis.

A Stech. inv. 1685. D.D.G. humillimus Servus Matth. Deisch fec. Ged. 1769.
Mezzotint, 18th century watermark. 250 x 420mm (9¾ x 16½"), large margins. Stain top right.
Bias weeps while condemning someone to death. Bias of Priene (6th century BC) was one of the Seven Sages of Greece, renouned for his probity. An illustration of a tapestry after Andrzej Stech (1635-97) that once belonged to the bench of judges in the Artus Court in Gdansk, Poland. The story comes from 'Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers' by Diogenes Laėrtius (3rd century AD).
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