The Fragments of Empedocles

Empedocles

Translated by William Ellery Leonard

58 chapters · about 22 min

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The opening

To His Friend.

To His Friend.

I.

Hear thou, Pausanias, son of wise Anchitus!

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About this edition

The words
William Ellery Leonard's English translation, copied word for word.
Left out
  • Page numbers and running heads from the printed pages, in 5 places
  • Notes and pages added by translators, editors or publishers, in 7 places
  • The title page and opening pages before chapter 1, in 2 places
  • A speck at the head of the epigraph page, read by the OCR as “- E”
  • Copyright notice of the Open Court Publishing Co., 1908 (2 blocks)
  • A preface, foreword or afterword
  • Other material that isn't the author's, in 2 places