Atalanta Fugiens · Emblem XLI
Adonis ab apro occiditur, cui Venus accurrens tinxit rosas sanguine.
Adonis is killed by a boar; Venus, running to him, dyed the roses with his blood.
Emblem XLI
Grief colours what it touches. The white roses turn red: the reddening arrives through loss.
A question to carry
What has your grief coloured?
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.