Philosophical poem · 1908

The Fragments of Empedocles

Translated into English verse

by Empedocles

Translated by William Ellery Leonard (1908)

The surviving fragments of Empedocles' two hexameter poems, On Nature and The Purifications, in William Ellery Leonard's English verse: the four roots, Love and Strife, the cycles of the cosmos, and the wandering of the soul.

Contents · 3 parts

• On Natureabout 520 lines
• The Purificationsabout 160 lines
• Last Echoes of a Song Half Lost8 lines

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