Part 65

Archiv f. d. Gesch. d. Phil. iii. p. 173.

Stein, Symbol. p. 782; Bernays, Rhein. Mus. vii. 115; Zeller, 738 and n. 1.

Following Karsten and Preller; Stein rejects the interpretation.

Cf. Soph. 217 C.

V. Parmenides, Frag. v. 104.

Karsten understands ‘heat and cold,’ Diels ‘perceiving and thinking.’

V. Herm. Irr. Gen. Phil. 6; Dox. 652.

Cf. vv. 123-131.

V. Simpl. Phys. 8: 34, 14.

Cf. Arist. Metaph. ii. 4; 1001 b 8.

Cf. Diels, Archiv f. d. Gesch. d. Phil. i. 245; Zeller, i.⁵ 593 n. 1.

Arist. Phys. vii. 5, 250ᵃ, 20.

Reading πρὸς ταῦτα λυθήσεται, which, as Mr. G. D. Lord suggests to me, is probably the source of the corruption προστανλυθήσεται. The Vatican vulgate combines both readings.

The paraphrase above (Fr. 3) gives the argument in fuller form.

Zeller i.⁵ 613 n. 1 suggests ὑπ’ ἰοῦ ῥέων, ‘passing away because of rust.’

Cf. Galen, 27; Dox. 615 sq.

Cf. Epiph. Haer. i. 7; Dox. 589.

Cf. 25; Dox. 574.

Stein omits 312 from his numbering of the lines.

Cf. Dox. p. 90, n. 3.

Cf. Parmenides v. 112.

In Empedokles’ verses, αἰθὴρ regularly means air.

θνητά, ‘perishable things’ in contrast with the elements, might almost be rendered ‘things on the earth.’

φύσις here seems to mean ‘nature,’ and not ‘origin.’

θάμνος, ‘bush,’ I have rendered regularly ‘plant.’

Cf. Aet. v. 19; Dox. 430.

Cf. Cicero, Tusc. I. 9: ‘Empedocles animum esse censet cordi suffusum sanguinem.’

Cf. p. 119, note 1.