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Menelaus took the hardened captain Hyperenor, gouged his flank and the bronze ripped him open, spurting his entrails out — and his life, gushing forth through the raw, yawning wound, went pulsing fast and the dark came swirling down across his eyes.
Thales, too, from what has been recorded of him, seems to have assumed that the Vital Principle is something motive, since he said that the loadstone must have a Vital Principle because it gives motion to iron.
Rage — Goddess, sing the rage of Peleus' son Achilles, doomed, that cost the Achaeans countless losses, hurling down to the House of Death so many sturdy great fighters’ souls, but made their bodies carrion, feasts for the dogs and birds, and the will of Zeus was moving toward its end.
And yet once there went from Thebes, Cadmus’ city, a hero short in stature but unflinching in spirit. This hero went to the house of Antaeus in grain-bearing Libya, to keep him from roofing Poseidon's temple with the skulls of strangers, Alcmena's son.
ḕn dé tis ára boulēthêi kaì pompikôi kaì meteṓrōi kaì lamprôi híppōi khrḗsasthai, ou mála mèn tà toiaûta ek pantòs híppou gígnetai, allà deî hupárxai autôi kaì tḕn psukhḕn megalóphrona kaì tò sôma eúrōston.
c. 1898 translation by Henry Graham Dakyns
If, however, the wish is to secure a horse adapted to parade and state processions, a high stepper and a showy animal, these are qualities not to be found combined in every horse, but to begin with, the animal must have high spirit and a stalwart body.
Those arise — those which one calls butterflies (psukhai) — out of those caterpillars which arise on leaves of green, especially on the of the cabbage-plant (raphanos), which some call cabbage (krambē).
cited by Liddell and Scott as an example of ψυχή meaning “the conscious self or personality as centre of emotions, desires, and affections”
Dawson Turner’s prose translation (1852):
But few are able to counsel how with hands and soul to turn the cloud of war that is upon them upon the ranks of the enemies.
Abraham Moore’s metrical translation (1852):
Few are the fiery souls that know, When war’s fierce tempest heaviest falls, Back on th’ assailant’s arms and wavering ranks With hand and heart to turn The wasteful wreck.
Diane Svarlien’s translation (1990):
But few are able to conspire with hand and heart to turn back against the ranks of the enemy the cloud of slaughter that presses close upon them.
2006, Steven Paul, The Apocalypse Letter by Letter: A Literary Analysis of the Book of Revelation, page 281 (discussing Revelation 8:9): “The literal meaning of the noun ‘ψυχή’ is ‘breath’; hence, like ‘πνεῦμα’ , it can also mean ‘spirit, soul, mind.’"
Leon Marvell (2007) “the psyche (the term derives from ψυχη, the breath, and ψυχειν, to breathe)”, in Transfigured light: philosophy, cybernetics and the hermetic imaginary (in Ancient Greek), →ISBN, page 128
(religion,folklore, also figurative)soul, spirit(essence of a person (or place or thing figuratively) usually thought to consist of one's thoughts and personality)
Ο Θεός να αναπαύσει την ψυχή της. ― O Theós na anapáfsei tin psychí tis. ― God rest her soul.
Το σώμα είναι η κιβωτός της ψυχής. ― To sóma eínai i kivotós tis psychís. ― The body is the vessel of the soul.
Στον δρόμο δεν υπήρχε ψυχή τέτοια ώρα. ― Ston drómo den ypírche psychí tétoia óra. ― There wasn't a soul to be seen on the road at that hour.
η ψυχή της Ελλάδας ― i psychí tis Elládas ― the soul of Greece