φρήν: Difference between revisions

|mdlsjtxt=<br /><b class="num">I.</b> [[properly]] = [[διάφραγμα]], the [[midriff]] or [[muscle]] [[which]] parts the [[heart]] and lungs ([[viscera]] thoracis) from the [[lower]] [[viscera]] (abdominis), Aesch.; [[usually]] in plural, Arist., etc.<br /><b class="num">II.</b> in Hom., [[φρήν]] or φρένες = the parts [[about]] the [[heart]], the [[breast]], Lat. [[praecordia]], Il.; φρένες ἀμφιμέλαιναι Il.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> the [[heart]], as the [[seat]] of the passions, Hom., etc.; ἐκ φρενός from one's [[very]] [[heart]], Aesch.; φῦσαι φρένας to [[produce]] a [[haughty]] [[spirit]], Soph.<br /><b class="num">3.</b> the [[heart]] or [[mind]], as the [[seat]] of [[thought]], φρενὶ νοεῖν, ἐπίστασθαι Il., etc.; μετὰ φρεσὶ μερμηρίζειν Od.; κατὰ φρένα [[εἰδέναι]], [[γνῶναι]] Il., etc.; κατὰ φρένα καὶ κατὰ θυμόν, as in Lat. [[mens]] animusque, Il.;—[[hence]] men [[lose]] [[their]] φρένες, i. e. [[their]] wits, Od.; πλήγη φρένας ἃς [[πάρος]] εἶχεν Il.;—so, in [[attic]], φρενῶν ἀφεστάναι, ἐκστῆναι to be out of one's wits, Soph., Eur.; ποῦ ποτ' εἰ φρενῶν; satisne [[sanus]] es? Soph.; φρενῶν [[ἐπήβολος]] in [[possession]] of one's senses, Soph.; [[ἔνδον]] φρενῶν Eur.; ἐξ ἄκρας φρενός, i. e. [[superficially]], Aesch.<br /><b class="num">4.</b> of beasts, Il.<br /><b class="num">5.</b> [[will]], [[purpose]], Soph.