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Headword: *)/ekforos
Adler number: epsilon,713
Translated headword: carried-away
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
"I feel myself being carried-away by my passion."[1] That is, led astray.
Greek Original:
*)/ekforos: ai)sqa/nomai gino/menos u(po\ tou= pa/qous e)/kforos. toute/sti para/foros.
Notes:
[1] Synesius, Epistle 130. In a similar entry the Lexicon Vindobonense (epsilon183) attributes this quotation explicitly to Synesius. A. Fitzgerald translates: "I feel that I am not master of my grief ..." (web address 1).
This letter is quoted also at kappa 169 and upsilon 441.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; definition; ethics; imagery; rhetoric
Translated by: William Hutton on 25 January 2007@04:43:38.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (cosmetics) on 25 January 2007@05:00:49.
Catharine Roth (added keyword) on 26 January 2007@00:44:17.
David Whitehead (more keywords; cosmetics) on 10 August 2012@05:47:03.
David Whitehead on 10 August 2012@05:51:46.
Catharine Roth (expanded note 1, added a link) on 26 April 2023@01:11:35.
Catharine Roth (tweaklet) on 26 April 2023@18:52:02.
Catharine Roth (cross-references) on 30 April 2023@19:30:25.
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