The bitter observation "homo homini lupus" translates into English as "Man is a wolf to man."
The pattern in Latin is the same as in asinus asino et sus sui pulcher - the noun first in the nominative (ie subject) case and then in the dative (ie indirect object) case. Homo, hominis is, of course, a third declension noun same as sus, hence the dative with an -i ending.
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