“But what is lawful for all extends across wide-ruling aether and, without cease, through endless sunshine.”

—  Empedocles

fr. 135, as quoted in Aristotle's Rhetoric, 1373 b16
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ἀλλὰ τὸ μὲν πάντων νόμιμον διάτ᾽ εὐρυμέδοντος/αἰθέρος ἠνεκέως τέταται διά τ᾽ ἀπλέτου αὐγῆς

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