PLATE XXXIV.—THE SHIPWRECK.
Death here is exercising his power on one of his most fertile domains. He himself is breaking the mast of a ship violently tossed by the tempest, and throws all the passengers into the most fearful despair. One alone we can distinguish, near the mast, who preserves the tranquillity of mind which, in the greatest danger, a good conscience yields to firm and intrepid minds; his head has all the features with which Socrates is usually represented.
Qui volunt ditescere incidunt in tentationem & laqueum, & cupiditates multas stultas & noxias, quæ demergunt homines in exitum & interitum. 1 ad Timo. vi. 9.