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Οὐρανὸς ὡς μυρίοις ὄμμασιν εἴς σε βλέπω.
I cannot withhold Shelley's exquisite version:
"Fair star of life and love, my soul's delight!
Why lookest thou on the crystalline skies?
O that my spirit were yon heaven of night,
Which gazes on thee with its thousand eyes!"
Revolt of Islam, c. ix. st. 36.
Dr. Wellesley's Anthologia Polyglotta contains several versions of Plato's lines. There is also one by Swynfen Jervis, in Lewis's Biographical History of Philosophy, s. v. Plato.
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