Motif
Love-sickness healed by the beloved
love_sickness_healed_by_the_beloved
A motif of the Sacred Love and Longing family, within the sub-family Lovesickness and Longing. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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greek
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Phaedrus PHAEDRUS / INTRODUCTION. / ON THE DECLINE OF GREEK LITERATURE. / PHAEDRUS; lines 2389-2457 confidence: high
In absence the soul dries, closes, throbs, and is pained; seeing the beautiful one again refreshes it in the waters of beauty, and the beloved becomes the healer of the pain.
The soul suffers pain, sleeplessness, and madness in separation, but is refreshed by seeing the beloved, who is called the physician able to assuage the pain.
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