Yes, all will be so simple when everything is said and done.
O beloved one —
for now, I turn the unknown world round how i never got over You.



//

listening to
Sicut cervus
by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

//

Phaedrus: (as Lysias, cont.)

when (on the other hand
it is) fortunate (eu-tucheein)

of things beside those (para ekeinon)
not worthy (axios)
of pleasure (hedone)

(love) forces (anagkazein)
praise (epainos)
to happen (tugchanein)

// 233β

εὐτυχοῦντας δὲ καὶ

τὰ μὴ ἡδονῆς ἄξια παρ᾽ ἐκείνων

ἐπαίνου ἀναγκάζει τυγχάνειν