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In formosam fato praereptam.[1]
On a beautiful woman, dead before her time
EMBLEMA CLVI.
Cur puerum Mors ausa dolis es carpere Amorem,
Tela tua ut iaceret, dum propria esse putat?
Death, why did you so audaciously and with evil intent steal from the boy Love? - So that he might shoot your weapons, thinking them his own?
Notes:
1. The iconography of the emblems ‘De morte et amore’ (previous emblem) and ‘In formosam fato praereptam’ is confused in many editions.
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- arm stretched forward (+ holding something) [31A2512(+933)] Search | Browse Iconclass
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- one leg in front of the other, walking position (+ standing) [31A26211(+51)] Search | Browse Iconclass
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- boy (child between toddler and youth) (+ nude human being) [31D11221(+89)] Search | Browse Iconclass
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- Death with scythe «« KEY (4) TO 31F2 personifications of Death; 'Morte' (Ripa) [31F2(+4)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Death as (rotting) corpse [31F25] Search | Browse Iconclass
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- Death conquering Life or the living [31F3310] Search | Browse Iconclass
- theft [44G544] Search | Browse Iconclass
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- agricultural implements (with NAME) [47I15(SCYTHE)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- (story of) Cupid, Amor (Eros) (+ variant) [92D1(+0)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- sleeping Cupid; possibly signifying a slackening of Love's influence [92D155] Search | Browse Iconclass
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