Now Fear's dark daughter does no more exult
Within my heart.[132]
But Anaxandrides makes a man who is struggling with fear say—
O my wretched heart!
How you alone of all my limbs or senses
Rejoice in evil; for you leap and dance
The moment that you see your lord alarm'd.
PERFUMES.
And Plato says, "that the great Architect of the universe has placed the lungs close to the heart, by nature soft and destitute of blood, and having cavities penetrable like sponge, that so the heart, when it quivers, from fear of adversity or disaster, may vibrate against a soft and yielding substance." But the garlands with which men bind their bosoms are called ὑποθυμιάδες by the poets, from the exhalations (ἀναθυμίασις) of the flowers, and not because the soul (ψυχὴ) is called θυμὸς, as some people think.
37. Archilochus is the earliest author who uses the word μύρον (perfume), where he says—