Fratres Helenae

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... Fratres Helenae, lucida sidera,
Ventorumque regat pater
Obstrictis aliis praeter Iapyga.

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Artist

Name:
Français, François-Louis
Dates:
1814-1897
Country:
France

Illustration

Subject:
Ornaments & Patterns
Technique:
Wood Engraving
Engraver:
Hart (Solomon?)
Format:
Landscape (wider)
Source:
the Getty Research Institute, the Internet Archive

Book

Title:
Paul et Virginie
Author:
Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Jacques-Henri
Publisher:
Paris: Léon Curmer, 1838
Open Library:
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Description:

Decorative border made of leaves, flowers and fruit, inside which is written an excerpt of Horace’s Ode 1.3. The full stanza reads:

Sic te diva potens Cypri,
Sic fratres Helenae, lucida sidera,
Ventorumque regat pater
Obstrictis aliis praeter Iapyga.

Which can be understood as:

May the goddess who rules over Cyprus, and Helen’s brothers, those bright stars, and the lord of the winds, tying up all the others except Zephyr, guide you.

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