Empedocles’ Complete Fragments, Volume I

Plut., Adv. Col. 1113 B

. . . avenging death . . .

Plut., Adv. Col. 1113 A/B

But when, mingled in the shape of a man, they come into the aither,

or in the kind of wild beasts, or of bushes,

or of birds, then men ‹say› that this is to be born;

and when they are separated, they call that in turn ill-starred doom.

They do ‹not› call it as is right; but I too speak by their custom. 5

Aetios I 18,2

Nor is any part of the All empty, nor superfluous.

Simplic. in Phys., p. 160,28 sqq.

For all these are joined in friendship with their own parts —

the beaming sun, and earth, and heaven, and sea —

all of them that have been born, strayed apart, among mortal things.

And just so, all that are the better fitted for blending

are held dear by one another, made alike by Aphrodite. 5

But hostile ‹are those that› stand furthest apart from one another

in birth and in blending and in their moulded forms,

in every way unused to come together, and very grievous,

at the biddings of Strife, since it has wrought their birth.