Atalanta Fugiens · Emblem XLVII

Lupus ab Oriente et Canis ab Occidente venientes se invicem momorderunt.

A wolf from the east and a dog from the west have bitten each other.

Emblem XLVII

A reading

The wild and the tame meet, and they fight. The conflict is part of the joining.

A question to carry

Where are the wild and the tame in you fighting?

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Michael Maier's Atalanta Fugiens (1618), with the Latin motto, a translation and a reading for each plate.

Engraving in the public domain.

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