work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context 6380,"",HDIS,2004-01-05 00:00:00 UTC,"Were Cælia Absent and remembrance brought
Her and past Pleasures thick upon my thought
With Bacchus' Liquors I'd Loves flames defeat
He'd soon leave flut'ring, if his Wings were wet.
Else to my Books I'd dedicate my Days,
Forget my Daphne whilst I sought the Bays.
Or shou'd all other Cures successless prove
To some kind Present She my Suit I'd move
Burns are expell'd by fire and Love by Love
But when I want my Friend, when my vext heart
Beats short, and pants and seeks its nobler part
That absent one not millions can attone
Amidst a Multitude I'm stil Alone
My mind like Telephus's hurt is found.
The cause that gave can only Cure the wound.

(ll. 1-8, pp. 104)",,16859," •Telephus was wounded by Achilles. His wound would not heal until after the war, when Achilles scraped the rust off of his Pelian spear. ""The healing of Telephus's wound by Achilles was the subject of a play by Sophocles, called The Assembly of the Achaeans, and one by Euripides called Telephus. Aristophanes ridiculed the rags and tatters in which Telephus appeared on the stage in Euripides's play. The cure of a wound by an application to it of rust from the weapon which inflicted the hurt is not to be explained, as Pliny supposed, by any medicinal property inherent in rust as such, else the rust from any weapon would serve the purpose. It is clearly a folklore remedy based on the principle of sympathetic magic"" (From ""Monsalvat: The Parsifal Home Page."" http://home.c2i.net/monsalvat/grkmyths.htm). See also Frazer. ","""My mind like Telephus's hurt is found. / The cause that gave can only Cure the wound.""","",2013-07-22 15:16:10 UTC,""