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Ulysses’s sacrifice of the black goats to Pluto
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1606-1669
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1504-1570
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p. 247, under no. 22
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Inscription: Recto: lower right, black ink, 'AvD' in monogram, followed by an illegible word: TvT 22 AvD […]; lower margin, black ink: Ulysse faict tuer les boucs noirs, pour les sacrifier à pluton, et empesche les ombres des morts d’en boire le sang, / jusques à ce que le prophete Týresias en ait gousté le premier, c’est une secrete Theologie qui monstre, qu’il faut / toujours ceder aux mysteres de la Religion, et se tenir à ce que nos peres en ont creu, sans penetrer trop avant. [Ulysses kills the black goats to make a sacrifice to Pluto, and prevents the spirits of the dead drinking the blood until the Prophet Tiresias has tasted it first. It is a secret Theology which reveals that it is always necessary to yield to the mysteries of Religion, and hold to what our fathers have believed without going beyond.]
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