Curſed be he which tranſlateth the bounds and dolles of his Neighbor.

There was, however, an inclination in pre-Christian Greek philosophy to speak of philautia in a different way. In Plato's Laws we first encounter the saying, apparently traditional, that every man is naturally his own friend. This idea was to provide Aristotle with a developed theory of friendship.

A sense of lightness permeated my being to what I thought must be a cellular — indeed a soulular — level.

Fascinated, she stood shaken ungovernably by its horrible suggestiveness, while above and about her the trees shivered meaningly.