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NOXIA COPULATIO.
FATAL COUPLING
Enecat amplexu serpens hedera arboris altae
Quo sustinetur stipitem.
Sic & amica procax hedera formosior alba,[1]
Lentis adhaerens brachiis:
Quem semel amplexa est: lascivo occîdit amore
Suggens opes, & sanguinem.
The creeping ivy strangles with its embrace the trunk of the tall tree that sustains it. Just so, a flirtatious girlfriend lovelier than white ivy, clings with soft arms and kills with lustful love, sucking our blood and treasure.
Notes:
1. A bucolic tag: Vergil, Eclogues, 7.38.
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- barn [41A171] Search | Browse Iconclass
- birds [25F3] Search | Browse Iconclass
- fence, wall, paling [41A54] Search | Browse Iconclass
- low hill country [25H114] Search | Browse Iconclass
- plants and herbs (with NAME) [25G4(IVY)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- trees [25G3] Search | Browse Iconclass
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- coitus, cohabiting, sexual intercourse [33C4] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Lust, Luxury, 'Luxuria'; 'Lussuria' (Ripa) ~ personification of one of the Deadly Sins [11N36] Search | Browse Iconclass
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