Senec.
AMOR ÆTERNVS.

Nulla dies, tempúsue potest dissoluere amorem,
Néue est, perpetuus sit nisi, verus Amor,
Annulus hoc anguisque tibi curuatus in orbem,
Temporis æterni signa vetusta, notant.

Loue is euerlasting.

No tyme can ruin loue, true loue wee must intend,
Because not lasting still it hath not that esteem,
The endlesse serpent ring vnending tyme doth seem,
Wherein loue still remaines from euer hauing end.

Amor eterno.

l’Innanellata serpe mostra e apprende
La ferma eternità: l’Amor verace
In quella viue sempre, e non si sface,
Il Tempo distruttor nulla l’offende.

Liefde is eewigh.

Van d’ouden door de slangh of trou-ringh sonder ende
Wert d’eewigheyt verstaen/ die nimmermeer vergaet:
Oprechte Liefde vast in eewigheyt bestaet/
Die niet en werdt beweeght door voorspoet/ noch ellende.

Amour est eternel.

Le cercle viperin l’eternité nous marque,
Parquoy sans chef, sans bout se fait l’anneau nopcier:
l’Amour sis au milieu dict qu’il doibt estre entier,
Et eternel, maugré la fortune & la Parque.

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Translations

De liefde is eeuwig.

Seneca

Love is eternal. [Seneca?]

Geen dag of tijd kan de liefde ontbinden en als zij niet eeuwigdurend is, is het geen echte liefde. De trouwring en de slang die tot een cirkel is gekromd, zijn voor jou een teken hiervan..

No day or time can ruin love and love is not real if it is not everlasting. The wedding-ring and the serpent, curved into a circle, tokens-of-old of eternity, are a sign of this for you.

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Literature

Henkel and Schöne, Emblemata, col. 656
Praz, Seventeenth-Century Imagery, p. 106
Sebastiàn, Lectura crítica, p. 15

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Sources and parallels

Alciato, Book of Emblems, embl. 132
Ouroboros: Mnemosyne, Occasional poetry, item. 790
Ouroboros: Amor æternus [5] (in: Otto Vaenius, Amoris divini emblemata (1615)) [Compare]
Amor æternus [1] (in: Otto Vaenius, Emblemata aliquot selectiora amatoria (1618)) [Compare]

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Amor æternus [5] (in: Otto Vaenius, Amoris divini emblemata (1615))
Amor æternus [1] (in: Otto Vaenius, Emblemata aliquot selectiora amatoria (1618))

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A cupid encircled by Ouroboros (a snake biting its own tail)

Eternity, 'Aeternitas'; 'Eternité','Eternité o Perpetuité' (Ripa) [23A2]
serpent Ouroboros [23A21]
sitting on an elevation [31A2352]
floating in the air [31A2763]
archer's weapons: arrow [45C15(ARROW)]
archer's weapons: bow [45C15(BOW)]
quiver [45C23]
(personifications and symbolic representations of) Love; 'Amore (secondo Seneca)' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept) [56F2(+4)]
proverbs, sayings, etc. (with TEXT) [86(AMOR AETERNUS)]
specific aspects of Cupid [92D17]
attributes of Cupid (with NAME) [92D18(ARROW)]
attributes of Cupid (with NAME) [92D18(BOW)]
attributes of Cupid [92D18(QUIVER]

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