Atalanta Fugiens · Emblem XXVIII
Rex balneatur in Laconico sedens, atraque bile liberatur a Pharut.
The king bathes, seated in the sweat-bath, and is freed from black bile by Pharut.
Emblem XXVIII
Black bile is the old name for melancholy. The king is not cured by argument but by sitting in the heat until it passes.
A question to carry
What would it mean to sit in the heat instead of escaping it?
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Michael Maier's Atalanta Fugiens (1618), with the Latin motto, a translation and a reading for each plate.
Engraving in the public domain.