dumque sitim sedare cupit, sitis altera crevit, dumque bibit, visae correptus imagine formae spem sine corpore amat, corpus putat esse, quod umbra est... [...and when he sought to quench his thirst, another thirst arose; and when he drank, he was captivated by the image of the form he saw—he loves a bodiless hope, he mistakes for a body what is only a shadow...] Ovid, Metamorphoses, book III
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