Atalanta Fugiens · Emblem XXXIV
In balneis concipitur, et in aere nascitur, rubeus vero factus graditur super aquas.
He is conceived in the baths and born in the air; made red, he walks upon the waters.
Emblem XXXIV
A whole sequence in one line: conceived in water, born in air, and, once red, above the water that once held him.
A question to carry
What once held you under that you might now stand on?
Emblem of the day
Michael Maier's Atalanta Fugiens (1618), with the Latin motto, a translation and a reading for each plate.
Engraving in the public domain.