Conjunge fratrem cum sorore & propina illis poculum amoris

Michael Maier, 1618 “Conjunge fratrem cum sorore & propina illis poculum amoris:” Atalanta Fugiens, Emblema IV, page 25, the motto printed over the engraving.

Symbolica, 2026 Maier’s Latin, put into English here: Join the brother to the sister and give them the cup of love.

Michael Maier, 1618 “Non hominum foret in mundo nunc tanta propago,
Si fratri conjunx non data prima soror.
Ergo lubens conjunge duos ab utroque parente
Progenitos, ut sint foemina masque toro.
Praebibe nectareo Philothesia pocla liquore
Utrisque, & foetus spem generabit amor.” Atalanta Fugiens, Epigramma IV, page 25, the six lines printed under the engraving.

Symbolica, 2026 Maier’s epigram, put into English here: There would not now be so great a stock of men in the world if the first sister had not been given to her brother as wife. So join gladly the two begotten of the same two parents, that there be woman and man in one bed. Drink them first a loving cup of nectar, and love will breed the hope of offspring.

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2. 1The King and the Queenthe brother and sister embracing
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4. 2The Vesselthe covered cup the third figure holds out to them

A man and a woman embracing while a third holds out a covered cup. By eye

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