"ho heniocheuon ten ton kinoumenon pnoen" ?

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elis
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"ho heniocheuon ten ton kinoumenon pnoen" ?

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Hello

I would be grateful if someone could identify where this quote is from.
"Ho he^niocheuo^n te^n to^n kinoumeno^n pnoe^n". Roughly,
"the charioteer/director of the moving-beings' breath". The one who quoted this, a modern greek poet, was notorious for his platonic tendencies. I cant recall this in Plato though (in Phaidros there are similar expressions but not this one). For some reason, my guess would be Plotinus or perhaps something off the orthodox corpus

thank you

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Post by whiteoctave »

the quotation stems from the rather tedious Romanus Melodus, the hymnographer, Cantica 40.2.6.

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elis
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romanos?

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thans a lot

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