Last week Ross Clark expatiated on the hysteria and panic generated by Covid-19 that threatens to send the world into lockdown. These are aspects of the emotion of ‘fear’, and the Greeks certainly had words for that.
The root of Greek deos ‘fear’ meant ‘two’, and was cognate with the Latin dub- (cf.
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