This emblem was drawn by the Flemish artist Otto van Veen in his book entitled 'Emblemata Horatiana'.

... Emblem This emblem was drawn by the Flemish artist Otto van Veen in his book entitled 'Emblemata Horatiana'. The emblems in this book, which was published in 1601, illustrate the poems of the Roman poet Horace as the Latin book title implies. The emblem is seemingly split into five separate scenes which are all set in a tavern or inn. Though the man in the different scenes does look similar I do not think it is the same man whose life is followed throughout the emblem but rather different situations into which a man can get himself. The first scene is in the top left hand corner of the emblem. It portrays a young man, at the forefront, gambling and seemingly quite happy. The light, the brightness of which is normally an indicator of goodness in terms of morality, is quite good even though gambling was a vice but the true question, which

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