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Inanis impetus.
Antagonism that achieves nothing
LXXXI [=82] .
Lunarem noctu, ut speculum,[1] canis inspicit orbem:
Seque videns, alium credit inesse canem,[2]
Et latrat: sed frustra agitur vox irritas ventis,
Et peragit cursus surda Diana suos.[3]
A dog at night is looking into the moon’s disk as into a mirror and seeing himself, thinks there is another dog there; and he barks - but the sound is carried away, ineffectual, on the winds. Diana, unhearing, pursues her course.
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- night [23R14] Search | Browse Iconclass
- dog [34B11(+939):31B6211] Search | Browse Iconclass
- dog (+ audible means of communication of animal(s): roaring, crying, singing, barking, mewing, neighing, chirping, etc.) [34B11(+949)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Inutility, Noxiousness; 'Nocumento', 'Nocumento d'ogni cosa' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept) [54BB3(+4):56E3(+4)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Diana as moon-goddess, i.e. Luna (Selene) [92C371] Search | Browse Iconclass
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