opsimatheis

Updated: May 25, 2025

"Unhappily," he cries in French, often selected by him as the vehicle of strong feeling, "I am one of those whom the Greeks call opsimatheis. I have come into the world and into Italy too late." More than thirty years afterwards, Goethe also, after many aspirations and severe preparation of mind, visited Italy.

Walter Pater - The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry