TEXT AND TRANSLATIONS
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Οὐκ οἶδ᾽ ὄττι θέω, δύο μοι τὰ νοήματα.
I know not what to do: I have two minds.
In doubt I am, I have two minds,
I know not what to do.
Quoted about 220 B.C. by Chrysippus, the Stoic philosopher.
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Ψαύην δ᾽ οὐ δοκίμοιμ᾽ ὀράνω δύσι πάχεσιν.
With my two arms, I do not aspire to touch the sky.
Quoted by Herodian.
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Ὤς δὲ παῖς πέδα μάτερα πεπτερύγωμαι.
So, like a child after its mother, I flutter.
From the “Etymologicum Magnum.”
