352-363. Diog. Laer. viii. 62. Omitting 354, 362, Anthol. Bosch. i. 86. 352-353, 355-356. Anth. gr. Jacobs ix. 569. 852-353. Diog. Laer. viii. 54 (cited as beginning of Book on Purifications). 354 inserted by Stz. from Diod. Sic. xiii. 83. 355. Diog. Laer. viii. 66 ; Sext. Emp. Math. i. 302; Philost. vit. Apoll. i. 1.; Lucian, pro laps. inter salut. i. 496 ; Cedren. chron. i. 157.
852. MS. ξανθοῦ, Bergk ζαθέου, 853. variant valere ἄκρην : variants dy, dy’, dv. Anth. πόληος, Bergk πόλεως, Steph. πόλευς. 354. MS. αἰδοῖοι, Bergk αἰδοίω». 355. Vulg. duiv, Bergk ὕμμιν. 356. Cd. Vind. τετιµηµένος . . . ἔοικα. 357. Vulg. θαλείης, corr. Karst. 861. MS. δέ τι, corr. Stz. Clem. Al. Strom. 754 παρακο- λουθεῖν . . . τοὺς μὲν payTocuvay κεχρηµένους, τοὺς 8’ ἐπὶ νοῦσον σιδηρὸν 8h χαλεποῖσι πεπαρµένου.. 363. Platt, Journ. Philol. 48 p. 247 ἑβόλοντο: MS. εὐηκέα, Scal. εὐήχεα.
364-365. Sext. Emp. Math. i. 302. 365. Some MSS. πολυφθορέω», Cf. 163.
ee ey — es -----ο-
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On PuRIFICATIONS.
852. O friends, ye who inhabit the great city of
sacred Akragas up to the acropolis, whose care is good
deeds, who harbour strangers deserving of respect, who
know not how to do baseness, hail! I go about among
you an immortal god, no longer a mortal, honoured by
all, as is fitting, crowned with fillets and luxuriant
garlands. With these on my head, so soon as I come
to flourishing cities I am revefenced by men and by
women; and they follow after me in countless numbers,
inquiring of me what is the way to gain, some in want
of oracles, others of help in diseases, long time in truth
pierced with grievous pains, they seek to hear from me
keen-edged account of all sorts of things.
964, But why do I lay weight on these things, as though I were doing some great thing, if I be superior
to mortal, perishing men ?
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ὦ Φίλοι, οἶδα μὲν οὖν ὅτ᾽ ἀληθείη παρὰ pvOors, 407
οὓς ἐγὼ ἐξερέω ' para 8’ ἀργαλέη ye τέτυκται
875 φυόµενον παντοῖα διὰ χρόνου εἴδεα θνητῶν, 6
ἀργαλέας βιότοιο µεταλλάσσοντα κελεύθου». «.
αἰθέριον μὲν γάρ ode µένος πόντονδε διώκει, 16
πόντος 6’ és χθονὸς οὖδας ἀπέπτυσε, yaia δ᾽ ἐς
avyas
ἠελίου ἀκάμαντος, ὁ δ᾽ αἰθέρος ἔμβαλε δίναι».
880 ἄλλος δ᾽ ἐξ ἄλλου δέχεται, στυγέουσι δὲ πάντες.
τῶν καὶ ἐγὼ νῦν εἰμὶ, φυγὰς θέοθεν καὶ ἀλήτης, 7
νείκει μαινομένῳ πίσυνος.
366-368. Clem. Al. Strom. 648.
366. AH ὅτ) ἀληθείη, Cd. Paris. ἐκ 7’ ἀληθείη. 367. Diels οὓς ἐρέω". pddra 8’ apyarén πάντεσσι τέτυκται,
369-382. 369, 371, 373-374, 381 Plut. de exil. 607c. 369-370, 372-383. Hippol. Ref. haer. 249-251 (scattered through the text). 369-370. Simpl. Phys. 272 v; Stob. Hcl. ii. 7; 384. 374-375. Origen ο. Cels. viii. 53 p. 780. 377-380. Plut. de Is. εἰ Os. 861 ο (Euseb. Praep. Ev. v. 5; 187). 377-379. Plut. de vit. alien. 8905. 381-382. Asclep. in Brand. Schol. Arist. 629 a; Hierokl. carm. aur. 254; Plotin. Enn. iv. 81; 468 c.
369. Plut. gor: τῆς (τι), Hippol. for: τί: Simpl. σφράγισµα. 871. Panz. Schneid. φρενῶν. 372. MS. ὃς καὶ ἐπιορκον ἅμαρ- τήσας ἐπομώσει, corr. Schneid. Schneid. αἵμασι», Stein αἵματος. Knatz rejects 372 as a gloss from Hesiod Theog. 793. 873. Plut. δαίµονες ofre µακραίωνες λέλόγχασι βίοιο, Hippol. δαιµόνιοί re (remainder as in text), Heeren δαίµων., Orig. Hipp. μὲν ἀπὸ. Cf. ἀπαὶ ν. 348. 875. Orig. γιγνοµένην παντοίαν διὰ χρόνον ἰδέαν, Hippol. φυοµένους παντοῖα διὰ χρόνον εἴδεα. 377. Hippol, µέν ye. 378. Plut. de vit. alien. δὲ χθονὸς . . . ἀνέπτυσε. Plut. de Is. éoavOis. 378. Hipp. Φαέθορτος. 881. MSS. ds, τὴ», τὼς, corr. Scal.; Hippol, confirms correction. Hippol. omits νῦν, Asclep. Seip’, 382. Asclep. αἰθομένῳ.
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866. Friends, I know indeed when truth lies in the
discourses that I utter; but truly the entrance of assur-
ance into the mind of man is difficult and hindered by
jealousy.
369. There is an utterance of Necessity, an ancient decree of the gods, eternal, sealed fast with broad oaths : whenever any one defiles his body sinfully with bloody gore or perjures himself in regard to wrong-doing, one of those spirits who are heir to long life, thrice ten thousand seasons shall he wander apart from the blessed, being born meantime in all sorts of mortal forms, changing one bitter path of life for another. For mighty Air pursues him Seaward, and Sea spews him forth on the threshold of Earth, and Earth casts him into the rays of the unwearying Sun, and Sun into the eddies of Air ; one receives him from the other, and all hate him. One of these now am I too, a fugitive from the gods
and a wanderer, at the mercy of raging Strife.
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ἤδη γάρ ποτ᾽ ἐγὼ γενόµην κοῦρός τε κόρη τε 880 θάμνος Tt’ oiwvos τε καὶ eiv ἅλι ἕλλοπος iy Os.
885 κλαῦσά τε καὶ κώκυσα, ἰδὼν ἀσυνήθεα χῶρον, 18
ἔνθα Φόνος τε Koros τε καὶ ἄλλων ἔθνεα Κηρῶν 21
αὐχμηραί τε νόσοι καὶ σήψιες ἔργα τε ῥευστά.
᾽Ατῆς av λειμῶνα κατὰ σκότος ἠλάσκούσιν. 23
IA > / αἰῶνοφ ἀμερθείς.
Anpis @ αἱματόεσσα καὶ Αρμονίη θεμερῶπις,
383-384. Clem. Al. Strom. 750; Diog. Laer. viii. 77; Athen. viii. 865; Philostr. vit. Apoll. i. 1; 2, and often.
383. Hippol. Philos. 3 ἥτοι μὲν γὰρ, Cedren. Chron. i.157 #rot μὲν πρῶτα. Often κούρη re xdpos re. 384. Cedren. καὶ Op κ.θ. ἐξ adds ἔμπνους ἰχθὺς καὶ ἐν Ολυμπία Bots, Diog. Laer. ἔμπυρος, Athen. ἔμπορος, Clem. ἕλλοπος. Others ἄμφορος, νήχυτος, φαίδιµος.
385-888. 385. Clem. Al. Strom. 516. 885b-386. Hierocl. carm. aur. 254. 3886, 388. Synesius de prov. i. 89 Ρ. 386-387. Prokl. on Kratyl. 108: 386. Philo vol. ii. 638 Mang. 388. Synes. epist. 147 ; Julian. Imp. orat. &¢.
385. Clem. ἀσυνήθεα, Hierocl. ἀτέρπεα. 386. Synes. φθόνος, Philo Φόνοι τε λίμοι te. 388. Syn. Iul. ἐν λειμῶνι, Hier. dvd λειμῶνα, corr. Bentl.
889. Hierocl., as just cited ; λειμῶνα by ἀπολιπὼν . . . els γήινον ἔρχεται σῶμα ὀλβίου aidvos ἀμερθείς. 390-391. Clem. Al. Strom. 616. 390. Plut. de exil. 6072; Stob. Flor. ii. 80 Gais. 890. Clem. καὶ ofov. 391. Clem. λιπὼν. 392. Porphyr. de ant. nymph. ο. viii. 393-399, (United by Bergk.) 893-396. Plut. de tranquil. an. 414 Β. 894. Plut. de 19. Os. 8708. 896. Tztz. Chilad. xii. 575. 397» 899. Cornut. de nat. deor. chap. xvii. 894. Plut. 19. Os. µέροπι. 996. MS. Δειραίη, corr. Bentl. 396. Tzt. .
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969. For before this I was born once a boy, and a
maiden, and a plant, and a bird, and a darting fish in
the sea. 885. And I wept and shrieked on beholding the
unwonted land where are Murder and Wrath, and other
species of Fates, and wasting diseases, and putrefaction
and fluxes.
888. In darkness they roam over the meadow of Ate.
389. Deprived of life.
990. From what honour and how great a degree of blessedness have I fallen here on the earth to οτι
with mortal beings | 892. We enter beneath this over-roofed cave.
898. Where were Chthonie and far-seeing Heliope (7.e.
Earth and Sun?), bloody Contention and Harmony of
sedate face, Beauty and Ugliness, Speed and Loitering,
lovely Truth and dark-eyed Obscurity, Birth and Death,
and Sleep and Waking, Motion and Stability, many-
‘ crowned Greatness and Lowness, and Silence and Voice.
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395 Καλλιστώ 7’ Αἰσχρή τε, Θόωσά τε Δηναίη τε,
Νημερτής τ’ ἐρόεσσα μελάγκουρός τ) ᾿Ασάφεια,
Φυσώ τε Φθιμένη τε, καὶ Εὐναίη καὶ Ἔγερσις,
Κινώ τ) ᾿Αστεμφής τε, πολυστέφανός τε Μεγιστὼ
teal Φορύη, Σιωπή τε καὶ ’Opdain.t
400 ὢ πόποι, ὢ δειλὸν θνητῶν γένος, ὢ δυσάνολβον, 14 τοίων ἕἔκ 7’ ἐρίδων Ex τε στοναχῶν ἐγένεσθε.
405 οὖὐδέ τις ἦν κείνοισιν Αρης θεὸς οὐδὲ Κυδοιμὸς, 368
οὐδὲ Ζεὺε βασιλεὺς οὐδὲ Κρόνος οὐξὲ Ποσειδῶν,
ἀλλὰ Κύπρις βασίλεια. 370
τὴν oly εὐσεβέεσσιν ἀγάλμασιν ἱλάσκοντο
γραπτοῖς τε ζῴοισι μύριοισί τε δαιδαλεόδµοις
µελάγκο(υ)ρος, Plut. µελάγκαρπος. MSS. Φοριή, σόφη. Mullach’ Σιωπή. 400-401. Clem. Al. Strom. δ16- 611. Timon Phlias. in Euseb. Pr. ev. xiv. 18.
400. MS. 4 3, corr. Scalig. 401. MS. οἵω», corr. Stein. Cf. Timon and Porphyr. de abstin. ii. 27.
402. Stob. Hel. i. 1050; Plut. de esu car. 998 ο. Plut. ἀλλογνῶτι, Stob. V ἀλλοιχῶτι, A ἀλλογλῶτι.
403. Plut. Quaest. conv. 683 Ἡ. 404. Clem. Al. Strom. 516.
MS. νεκρὰ, efSe’, Flor. ἠδὲ, corr.
405-414. Porphyr. de abstin. ii. 21 (405-412), 27 (415. 414). 405- 411. Athen. xii. 610 p. 405-407. Eustath. Iuad. x. p. 1261, 44. 412- 414. Euseb. Pr. ev. iv. 14 from Porphyry ; Cyrill. adv. Julian. ix. 307.
406. Porphyr. οὐδ) 6 Kpdéyos, Eustath. omits. 407. Porphyr. adds ἤ ἐστιν 7 Φιλία. 408. Cf. Plato Legg. vi.782p and Iamblich. Vit. Pyth. 151. 409. Athen. yp. δὲ, Burnett µμακτοῖς : Porphyr. δαιδαλεόσµοι». 410. Porphyr. ἀκράτον. 411. Athen.
EMPEDOKLES 209 400. Alas, ye wretched, ye unblessed race of mortal
beings, of what strifes and of what groans were ye born!
402. She wraps about them a strange garment of
flesh. 408. Man-surrounding earth.
404. For from being living he made them assume
the form of death by a change. . . .
405. Nor had they any god Ares, nor Kydoimos (Up- roar), nor king Zeus, nor Kronos, nor Poseidon, but queen Kypris. Her they worshipped with hallowed offerings, with painted figures, and perfumes of skilfully made odour, and sacrifices of unmixed myrrh and fragrant frank- incense, casting on the ground libations from tawny bees. And her altar was not moistened with pure blood of bulls, but it was the greatest defilement among men, to
deprive animals of life and to eat their goodly bodies. P
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ξουθῶν τε σπονδὰς μελιτῶν ῥιπτοῦντες és οὖδας,
ταύρων 8 ἀκρήτοισι φόνοις οὗ δεύετο βωμό». 375
ἀλλὰ μύσος TOUT’ ἔσκεν ἐν ἀνθρώποισι µέηγιστον,
θυμὸν ἀπορραίσαντας ἐέδμεναι ἠέα γυῖα.
425 ov πέλεται Tots μὲν θεμιτὸν τόδε, τοῖς 8
ἀθέμιστον, 409
ἀλλὰ τὸ μὲν πάντων νόµιµον διά τ) εὐρυμέδοντος
αἰθέρος ἠνεκέως τέταται διά Tt ἀπλέτου αὐγῆς.
ξανθῶν . . . ῥίπτοντες. 412. Porphyr. Cyrill. ἀκρίτοισι, Euseb. ἀκράτοισι, corr. Scalig. Porphyr. δεύεται. 413. Cyrill. ἔσχον. 414. Porphyr. ἀπορρέσαντες . . . ἐέλμεναι, corr. Stein and Viger. 415-420. Iamblich. Vit. Pyth. 67. Porphyr. Vit. Pyth. 30. 415, 417. Diog. Laer. viii. 54. Order of verses in MS. 415,17, 16.
421-424. 421-422. Schol. Nicand. Theriac. p. 81 Schn. 423-424. Theophrast. de caus. plant. i. 13,2. Cf. Plut. Quaest. conv. 649 ο.
422. MS. φιλοφροσύνη, corr. Stz. 423-424. ἀείφυλλα καὶ ἐμπεδό- καρπά φησι θάλλειν Καρπῶν ἀφθονίῃσι Kar’ hépa πάἀντ’ ἐνιαυτὸν restored by Hermann. Herm. αἰείφυλλα, corr. Karst. from Plutarch. Stz. κατ) ἠέρα, Lobeck. xarhopa.
425.427. Arist. Rhet. i. 18 1873 b 15. 425. Arist. τοῦτο γὰρ οὗ τισὶ μὲν δίκαιον, τισὶ 3’ οὗ δίκαιο», Karst. θεμιτὸν . . . ἀθέμιστον. 427. YbZbAc αὐγῆς, Bekker from one MS. αὖ γῆς,
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415. And there was among them a man of unusual
sowie: and master especially of all sorts of wise
deeds, who in truth possessed greatest wealth of mind;
for whenever he reached out with all his mind, easily he
beheld each one of all the things that are, even for ten
and twenty generations of men.
421. For all were gentle and obedient toward men,
both animals and birds, and they burned with kindly
love; and trees grew with leaves and fruit ever on
them, burdened with abundant fruit all the year.
425. This is not lawful for some and unlawful for
others, but what is lawful for all extends on con-
tinuously through the wide-ruling air and the boundless
light.
427. Will ye not cease from evil slaughter 9 See ye not that ye are devouring each other in heedlessness of |
mind ? P2
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ov παύσεσθε φόνοιο δυσηχέοο; ovK ἐσορᾶτε 416 ἀλλήλους δάπτοντες ἀκηδείῃσι vooto ;
450 μορφὴν δ᾽ ἀλλάξαντα πατὴρ Φφίλον υἱὸν ἀείρας 410
σφάζει ἐπεύχομενοφ, µόγα νήπιος' οἱ δὲ φορεῦνται
λισσόμενοι θύοντος: ὁ δ' Ap νήκουστος ὁμοκλέων
σφάξαο ἐν µεγάροισι κακὴν ἀλεγύνατο δαῖτα. ᾽
ds 8 αὔτως πατέρ᾽ vids ἑλὼν καὶ µητέρα παῖδεν
485 θυμὸν ἀπορραίσαντε φίλας κατὰ σάρκα» ἔδουσιν.
οἴμοι ὅτ᾽ οὗ πρόσθεν µε διώλεσε νηλεὺο ἦμαρ, 9
πρὶν σχέτλ᾽ ἔργα Bopas περὶ χείλεσι µητί- —
σασθαι. |
ἐν θήρεσσι λέοντες ὀρειλεχέεν χαμαιεῦναι 382
ylyvovrat, δάφναι & avi δένδρεσσιν ἠυκόμοισιν.
440 δαφναίων φύλλων ἀπὸ πάµπαν ἔχεσθαι. 419 δειλοί, πανδειλοί, κυάµων dio χεῖραν ἔχεσθαι. 418
κρηνάων ἅπο πέντε ταμὼν ἐν ἀτειρέι χαλκῴ 422
χεῖρας ἀπόρρυψαι.
νηστεῦσαι KAKOTNTOS. 406
428-429. Sext. E. Math. ix. 129. 480-435. Sext. following the last verses. 430-481. Plut. de super- stitione 171 ο. 481. MSS. οἱ δὲ πορεῦνται, Scalig. ὃς . . . πορεῦται, Diels φορεῦνται. 432. MSS. θύοντες 88’ ἀνήκουότος, corr. Hermann. 435. MSS. ἀπορραίσαντα, corr. Karst. 436-437. Porphyr. de abst. ii. 31. 488-489. Aelian, Hist. An. xii. 7; Orphic. Frag. p. 511 Herm. 438. Λο]. ἐν θηρσὶ δὲ,