“For one by one did quake the limbs of God.”

—  Empedocles , book On Nature

tr. William Leonard
fr. 31
On Nature
Source: Leonard, William E. (1908). The Fragments of Empedocles. The Open Court Publishing Company. p. 30.

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πάντα γὰρ ἑξείης πελεμίζετο γυῖα θεοῖο.

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