
HOMINI EX HOMINE MATE-
RIA, EX DEO FORMA.
THE MATTER OF A MAN IS HUMAN, BUT HIS FORM IS FROM GOD.
Corda ferit telo Deus autor amoris eodem.
Iunctis connubii foedere corporibus.
Hinc genitos & ali iubet à Chirone biformi.
Cui rationalis pars, animalis & est.
SIC pueri ex hominum coitu nascuntur amoris.
Queeis vitam vegetat cum Ratione Deus.
The divine author of Love strikes hearts with the same weapon when bodies are joined in the firm pact of wedlock. He then commands that those who are born from this act should be raised by two-shaped Chiron, who has two parts, one rational, one animal. THUS children are born when men lie together in love, and God quickens life together with reason in them.
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- (lovers) embracing each other, 'symplegma' [33C233] Search | Browse Iconclass
- (lovers) kissing each other [33C232] Search | Browse Iconclass
- (story of) Chiron [92L721] Search | Browse Iconclass
- (story of) Cupid, Amor (Eros) [92D1] Search | Browse Iconclass
- archer's weapons (with NAME) [45C15(BOW)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- city-view in general; 'veduta' [25I1] Search | Browse Iconclass
- clouds [26A] Search | Browse Iconclass
- procreation and pregnancy [42A1] Search | Browse Iconclass
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- coitus, cohabiting, sexual intercourse [33C4] Search | Browse Iconclass
- God the Father [11(+11)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- spirit (or soul) versus body [31C] Search | Browse Iconclass
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