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Chapter Xiii. of Those Things That Are Least in Nature.

Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies · 46-120? Plutarch — chapter 14 of 144 · ~34 words · public domain

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Empedocles, before the four elements, introduceth the most minute bodies which resemble elements; but they did exist before the elements, having similar parts and orbicular.

Heraclitus brings in the smallest fragments, and those indivisible.

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