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Ἄτθι σοὶ δ᾽ ἔμεθέν μεν ἀπήχθετο
φροντίσδην, ἔπι δ᾽ Ἀνδρομέδαν πότῃ.
But to thee, Atthis, the thought of me is hateful; thou fliest to Andromeda.
Quoted by Hephaestion with the preceding, to which it does not appear really to belong.
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Ἔρος δαὖτ᾽ ἐτίναξεν ἔμοι φρένας,
ἄνεμος κατ ὄπος δρύσιν ἐμπέσων.
Now Eros shakes my soul, a wind on the mountain overwhelming the oaks.
Now like a mountain wind the oaks o’erwhelming,
Eros shakes my soul.
Quoted by Maximus Tyrius about 150 B.C. He speaks of Socrates exciting Phaedrus to madness, when he speaks of love.
