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AUTOB. There remains yet one sort more of alienation of the understanding in man, the same neither obscure, nor yet altogether calm and quiet; concerning which I would fain ask Pemptides, Which of the Gods it is who shakes the spear That beareth fruit so lovely and so fair.
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AUTOB. But without expecting a resolution of this question, I mean that erotic fury that possesses lovely youths and chaste women, yet a hot and vehement transport. For do we not see how the warrior lays down his arms, and submits to this more prevalent rage? His grooms, o’erjoyed he had the war forsook, His ponderous arms from off his shoulders took;Il. VII. 121.