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The Poems of Sappho: 40: Now Eros shakes my soul...

Ἕροσ δαὖτ᾽ ὲτίναξεν ἔμοι φρένασ, ἄνεμοσ κατ ὄροσ δρύσιν ἐμπέσων. [transcription] 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 Phaedus to madness, when he speaks of love.