Narratives – N333

Ancient stone images in Fichtelberg (after Celtis)

Paulus Merula, Cosmographiae generalis libri tres, pars II, lib. III, cap. 12

Latin

Conradus Celtes describit quasdam lapideas antiquas imagines, ad radices Piniferi Montis (Vichtelberg vulgo, in Umbilico Germaniae) in Coenobio quodam a se visas, quas credit iconice horum Druidum referre formam. Erant sex numero, inquit, ad fores templi parieti insertae, septem pedum singulae, nudis pedibus, capita intecta, Graecanico pallio & cucullato, pervitaque, barba ad inguina usque promissa, & circa naris fistulas bifurcatas in manibus Liber & Baculus Diogenicus; severa fronte, & tristi supercilio; obstipo capite & figentes lumina terris.

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