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Empedocles’ Complete Fragments, Volume I
Empedocles of Acragas · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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At a Glance
- The wordKydoimos is battle-noise or warlike tumult, personified in the list at B1282.
- In EmpedoclesThe name follows Ares in the declaration that these powers were not gods among the community over which Cypris was queen.
- In this editionThe transliteration “Kydoimos” and translation “Battle-Din” are lookup alternatives for the same printed noun.
- A place to readBattle-Din stands beside Ares among the absent gods.
Meaning
Kydoimos is battle-noise or warlike tumult, personified in the list at B1282. “Battle-Din” keeps the sound and disorder of combat audible. It is a different name from Quarrel, Wrath, or the cosmic Strife, even though their semantic fields overlap.
Use in the book
The name follows Ares in the declaration that these powers were not gods among the community over which Cypris was queen. Their adjacency makes a compact picture of war and its tumult. The subsequent contrast between fragrant worship and blood-soaked altars gives the absent power an ethical setting without assigning it an independent speech or action.
Kydoimos is not part of the B122/123 catalogue, and the two lists should not be collapsed merely because both use personification. In B1282 the form of the assertion is negative: Battle-Din is excluded from a particular community's order. The fragment provides no genealogy, cult practice, or allocation of one of the roots to the figure.
Places to read
- B 128.1–3Battle-Din stands beside Ares among the absent gods.
Translation in this edition
The transliteration “Kydoimos” and translation “Battle-Din” are lookup alternatives for the same printed noun. It should not be silently substituted for Neikos in the physical cycle.