Is not such an one likely to seat the concupiscent and covetous element on the vacant throne and to suffer it to play the great king within him, girt with tiara and chain and scimitar?
But should you place the rational in the middle, you would make the irascible farther from the concupiscent; though some of the philosophers have taken the irascible and the concupiscent faculty for the selfsame, by reason of their likeness.
The reasonable appetite is also divided, like the sensitive, into the concupiscent and the irascible, but it makes use of the mind as its instrument.
He said that our sensitive appetite was divided into two parts: the concupiscent and the irascible.
Should the soul become ignited with the fire of the love of God, it is called benevolent and pleasing unto God, but should it be consumed with the fire of passion, it is known as the concupiscent soul.
There is no difficulty in seeing that the charioteer represents the reason, or that the black horse is the symbol of the sensual or concupiscent element of human nature.
The stages of the conflict are many and various; and she is sorely let and hindered by the animal desires of the inferior orconcupiscent steed.
It is true of cynical, profligate, and concupiscent art as well.
In what I have called concupiscent art, the case might seem different, and to a certain extent it is so.
