Nutrix ejus terra est
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- | ''[[Nutrix ejus terra est]]''[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Atalanta_Fugiens_-_Emblem_2d.jpg] (The Earth is his Nurse) is the second [[emblem]] from the ''[[Atalanta Fugiens]]''[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Atalanta_Fugiens], a popular [[emblem book]] by [[Michael Maier]], illustrated by [[Jean Théodore de Bry]]. | + | ''[[Nutrix ejus terra est]]''[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Atalanta_Fugiens_-_Emblem_2d.jpg] (The Earth is his Nurse) is the second [[emblem]] from the emblem book ''[[Atalanta Fugiens]]'' (1617). |
- | A woman with the globe of the [[Earth]] around her body, nourishes an infant held in her left arm at her breast. With her right hand she gestures to the ground below, where a goat on the left [[suckle]]s a child and a wolf on the right suckles two children.[http://www.alcione.org/mmaier2.htm] | + | A woman with the globe of the [[Earth]] around her body, [[breastfeeds]] an infant held in her left arm at her breast. With her right hand she gestures to the ground below, where a goat on the left [[suckle]]s a child and a wolf on the right suckles two children.[https://web.archive.org/web/20060303000912/http://www.alcione.org/mmaier2.htm] |
- | The accompanying text reads (translation by [[Joscelyn Godwin]]): | + | The accompanying text reads: |
:"[[Romulus]] hirta lupæ pressisse, sed ubera capræ | :"[[Romulus]] hirta lupæ pressisse, sed ubera capræ | ||
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:cui Nutrix Terreus Orbis, erit?" | :cui Nutrix Terreus Orbis, erit?" | ||
- | In English translation: | + | In English translation (translation by [[Joscelyn Godwin]]): |
:A she-wolf's udders nourished Romulus, | :A she-wolf's udders nourished Romulus, | ||
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==See also== | ==See also== | ||
+ | *[[Spherical Earth]] | ||
*[[Mother Earth]] | *[[Mother Earth]] | ||
+ | *[[Mother Nature]] | ||
*[[Alchemy in art and entertainment]] | *[[Alchemy in art and entertainment]] | ||
*[[Emblemata]] | *[[Emblemata]] | ||
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*[[Human–animal breastfeeding ]] | *[[Human–animal breastfeeding ]] | ||
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Nutrix ejus terra est[1] (The Earth is his Nurse) is the second emblem from the emblem book Atalanta Fugiens (1617).
A woman with the globe of the Earth around her body, breastfeeds an infant held in her left arm at her breast. With her right hand she gestures to the ground below, where a goat on the left suckles a child and a wolf on the right suckles two children.[2]
The accompanying text reads:
- "Romulus hirta lupæ pressisse, sed ubera capræ
- Iupiter, & factis, fertur, adesse fides:
- Quid mirum tenera Sapientum viscera Prolis
- Si ferimus Terram lacte nutrisse suo?
- Parvula si tantas Heroas bestia pavit, Quantus,
- cui Nutrix Terreus Orbis, erit?"
In English translation (translation by Joscelyn Godwin):
- A she-wolf's udders nourished Romulus,
- A she goat, Jupiter, so 'tis believed:
- What wonder, if we say the tender CHILD
- Of the PHILOSOPHERS is nursed by EARTH?
- If poor beasts fed such Heroes, then HOW GREAT
- Shall be the one NURSED by the GLOBE of EARTH?
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See also
- Spherical Earth
- Mother Earth
- Mother Nature
- Alchemy in art and entertainment
- Emblemata
- Earth
- Nurse
- Pregnancy
- Human–animal breastfeeding
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