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  • While epithumia love can draw couples closer together, the danger is an uncontrolled desire to possess or own which can ultimately damage the relationship.

    Leslie Davenport: The Health Benefits of Love: A Meditation for Deepening Connections Leslie Davenport 2012

  • While epithumia love can draw couples closer together, the danger is an uncontrolled desire to possess or own which can ultimately damage the relationship.

    Leslie Davenport: The Health Benefits of Love: A Meditation for Deepening Connections Leslie Davenport 2012

  • Corresponding to the three gunas of sattva, rajas, tamas, Plato spoke of three categories logistikon, thumos, epithumia and he used a three-part classification for society.

    Indic Ideas in the Graeco-Roman World Tusar N Mohapatra 2005

  • Corresponding to the three gunas of sattva, rajas, tamas, Plato spoke of three categories logistikon, thumos, epithumia and he used a three-part classification for society.

    Archive 2005-10-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2005

  • What do you say of edone (pleasure), lupe (pain), epithumia (desire), and the like, Socrates?

    The CRATYLUS Plato 1975

  • In the Republic (Book IV) soul loses its unity and becomes divided into nous (“intellect”), thumos (“passion”), and epithumia (“appetite”).

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas ANTHONY A. LONG 1968

  • * Ou gar ti ekineito par 'auto, ou thumos, ouk epithumia allou paren auto, anabebekoti; all' ou de logos, ou de tis noesis; ou d 'holos autos, ei dei kai touto legein; all' hosper harpastheis e enthousiasas hesuche en eremo katastasei gegenetai atremei, te autou ousia oudamou apoklinon, oude peri auton strephomenos, hestos pante kai hoion stasis genomenos;: [4949] 1

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • Aristotle has, I venture to think, rather quibbled here, by using [Greek: epithumia] and its verb, equivocally as there is no following his argument without condescending to the same device, I have used our word lust in its ancient signification Ps. xxiv.

    Ethics 384 BC-322 BC Aristotle

  • In the Republic (Book IV) soul loses its unity and becomes divided into nous (“intellect”), thumos (“passion”), and epithumia (“appetite”).

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas 1925

  • The epithet mikra, as applied to the epithumia of the Elder, is inappropriate, and suggests an error of translation.

    The Three Additions to Daniel: A Study. 1906

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