Δέδηγμαι τὴν καρδίαν

[Meaning] I have been grieved, I have been pained.¹ And Homer [writes]: "the speech stung the mind of Hector".² Also [sc. attested is the phrase] "spirit-stinging speech".³ But [Aristophanes] said "heart", inasmuch as he associated the heart with the things of the spirit and of pleasure. In Homer Odysseus "struck his chest, was grieved at heart by the speech, and endured in heart, saying [...]."⁴