C.S. Lewis’s autobiography Surprised By Joy is easy to read. Nonetheless, he still makes quite a few references and quotes scraps of poetry without any explanation. An annotated edition would be welcome at times.
At one point he mentions a phrase in greek (non-phonetic, in greek typeset):
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(I desire too much) says the footnote
So if you were properly education (unlike myself) you would know this came from right? It appears that Google does not know the origin. I was expecting logs of references to Aristotle or someone like that to show up. Zip.
The inscription appears on the hat of a painting from 1540 by Moretto da Brescia titled ‘Portrait of a Young Man ‘Portrait of Count Fortunato Martinengo Cesaresco’. I’m assuming the phrase was around long before then, but maybe not. Anybody know this?