“Half of my soul yet breathes. I know not whether Love or Hades snatched the other half, only that it is gone.”
῞Ημισύ μευ ψυχῆς ἔτι τὸ πνέον, ἥμισυ δ’ οὐκ οἶδ’
εἴτ’ ῎Ερος εἴτ’ ᾿Αΐδης ἥρπασε, πλὴν ἀφανές.
Callimachus, Epigram 42
ΕΥΔΟΞΑ ΑΓΝΩΣΤΑ ΚΑΤΑΓΕΛΑΣΤΑ
psyche, no less
This is great. I love the quote. Makes me think of Confessions by Augustine of Hippo,
“For I wondered that others, subject to death, did live, since
he whom I loved, as if he should never die, was dead; and I wondered
yet more that myself, who was to him a second self, could live, he
being dead. Well said one of his friend, “Thou half of my soul”; for
I felt that my soul and his soul were “one soul in two bodies”: and
therefore was my life a horror to me, because I would not live halved.
And therefore perchance I feared to die, lest he whom I had much loved
should die wholly.”
This is great. Makes me think of the passage Augustine of Hippo, Confessions
“For I wondered that others, subject to death, did live, since
he whom I loved, as if he should never die, was dead; and I wondered
yet more that myself, who was to him a second self, could live, he
being dead. Well said one of his friend, “Thou half of my soul”; for
I felt that my soul and his soul were “one soul in two bodies”: and
therefore was my life a horror to me, because I would not live halved.
And therefore perchance I feared to die, lest he whom I had much loved
should die wholly.”