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38) The theme was repeated on the final archway, which portrayed Louis XIII as Augustus, leading a figure of rebellion in chains and La Rochelle as Cleopatra allowing herself to be bitten by a snake, signifying "la vengeance divine et la punition de ceux qui attentent a la sainctete de Roys. This restriction of Aristotle's sense is sometimes found in the Renaissance as well: see Savigny, who subdivides "justice particuliere" into "distributive" and "corrective, a laquelle appartiennent les punitions & supplices. Thus, his stated purpose in Epistre invective 2 is to "[lui] inferer [donner] punition, telle que [son] inicque scelerite [meschancete] l'a deservye" (H [iiii. |
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