Arborem cum sene conclude in rorida domo, & comedens de fructu ejus fiet juvenis

Michael Maier, 1618 “Arborem cum sene conclude in rorida domo, & comedens de fructu ejus fiet juvenis.” Atalanta Fugiens, Emblema IX, page 45, the motto printed over the engraving.

Symbolica, 2026 Maier’s Latin, put into English here: Shut the tree up with the old man in a dewy house.

Michael Maier, 1618 “Arbor inest hortis Sophiae dans aurea mala,
Haec tibi cum nostro sit capienda sene;
Inque domo vitrea claudantur, roreque plena,
Et sine per multos haec duo juncta dies:
Tum fructu (mirum!) satiabitur arboris ille
Ut fiat juvenis qui fuit ante senex.” Atalanta Fugiens, Epigramma IX, page 45, the six lines printed under the engraving.

Symbolica, 2026 Maier’s epigram, put into English here: In the gardens of Wisdom stands a tree giving golden apples. Take it together with our old man, and let them both be shut in a house of glass full of dew, and leave the two joined there many days. Then, a wonder, he will be so filled with the fruit of the tree that he becomes young who before was old.

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1. Primary motif
2. 1The Treethe tree with its golden apples inside the glass house, and the old man eating from it
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4. 2The Vesselthe round house of glass that shuts them in

The tree and the old man enclosed together in a glass house. By eye

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