Distress and Delight

     An ancient summary of "distress" and "delight" found in Margaret R. Graver's Stoicism and Emotion:
     "Distress is a contraction of the psyche which is disobedient to reason, and its cause is a fresh believing that some evil is present toward which it is appropriate to be contracted [systole]. Delight is an elevation of the psyche which is disobedient to reason, and its cause is a fresh believing that some good is present towards which it is appropriate to be elevated [eparsis]."