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In quatuor tempora anni.
The four seasons
Advenisse hyemem fringilla renuntiat ales.
Ad nos vere novo garrula hirundo redit.
Indicat aestatem sese expectare cuculus.
Autumno est tantum cernere ficedulas.
The chaffinch is the bird that announces winter has come. When spring is new, the twittering swallow returns to us. The cuckoo lets us know that it sees summer on the way. Only in autumn can one see flycatchers.
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- Declaracion magistral sobre las Emblemas de Andres Alciato (1615), Najera: IN QUATUOR ANNI TEMpora. | Open in other pane
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- Liber emblematum ... Kunstbuch (1567), Franckfurt am Main: In quatuor anni tempora. Von den vier zeiten deß Jars. | Open in other pane
- Emblemata (1591), Leiden: In quatuor anni tempora. | Open in other pane
- Emblemata / Les emblemes (1584), Paris: In quatuor anni tempora. Sur les quatre saisons de l'an. | Open in other pane
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- year divided into four seasons [23D40] Search | Browse Iconclass
- autumn landscape; landscape symbolizing autumn (the four seasons of the year) [23F44:47I421] Search | Browse Iconclass
- winter ~ other concepts (e.g. biblical scenes) (the four seasons of the year) [23H41:25F32(CHAFFINCH)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- winter ~ other concepts (e.g. biblical scenes) (the four seasons of the year) [23H41:25F32(ROBIN)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- spring ~ other concepts (e.g. biblical scenes) (the four seasons of the year) [23H42:25F32(SWALLOW)(+53)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- summer ~ other concepts (e.g. biblical scenes) (the four seasons of the year) [23H43:25F39(CUCKOO)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- autumn ~ other concepts (e.g. biblical scenes) (the four seasons of the year) [23H44:25F37(BECCAFICO)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- autumn ~ other concepts (e.g. biblical scenes) (the four seasons of the year) [23H44:25F37(FIG-PECKER)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- sunrise [24A1] Search | Browse Iconclass
- groups of plants (herbs) [25G13] Search | Browse Iconclass
- trees [25G3] Search | Browse Iconclass
- low hill country [25H114] Search | Browse Iconclass
- clouds [26A] Search | Browse Iconclass
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