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MULIER UMBRA VIRI.

WOMAN IS MAN’S SHADOW

Figures fleeing from their shadows
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Umbra suum corpus radianti in lumine solis
Cùm sequitur refugit: cùm fugit insequitur.
Sic sunt Naturae tales muliebris Amores
Optet amans, nolunt: non velit, ultrò volunt.

As the shadow that follows its body through the sun’s radiant light flees as it follows and follows as it flees, so also are the loves of womankind. If you want it, they don’t; if you don’t, they don’t need asking.

Figure chasing a woman who turns into a tree
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Phoebum virgo fugit Daphne inviolata sequentem.[1]

The virgin Daphne flees inviolate from Apollo her pursuer.

Link to an image of this page  Link to an image of this page  [D6r p59]

Woman chasing a man. Disembodied heads (indicating echoes?)
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Echo Narcissum dum fugit insequitur.
Ergo voluntati plerumque adversare pugnans
Foemina, iure sui dicitur umbra viri.

Echo pursues Narcissus as he flees. THEREFORE, woman, who most often resists our will, is rightly called man’s shadow.

Notes:

1.  49b uses the same image as 38b ([FANa038])

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