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Empedocles : THE SPHERE

DK B 8, 117, 21, 124, 130, 132, 134, 27, * Translated by W. E. Leonard, * Greek Fonts, * Empedocles Resources


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134
For 'tis adorned with never a manlike head, for from Its back there swing no branching arms, it hath no feet nor knees alert, nor form of tufted secret member; but It lives, one holy mind, ineffable, alone, and with swift thoughts darts through the universe.

27
There views one not the swift limbs of the Sun, nor there the strength of shaggy Earth, nor Sea; but in the strong recess of Harmony, established firm abides the rounded Sphere, exultant in surrounding solitude.

134
οὐδὲ γὰρ ἀνδρομέηι κεφαλῆι κατὰ γυῖα κέκασται͵ οὐ μὲν ἀπαὶ νώτοιο δύο κλάδοι ἀίσσονται͵ οὐ πόδες͵ οὐ θοὰ γοῦν(α)͵ οὐ μήδεα λαχνήεντα͵ ἀλλὰ φρὴν ἱερὴ καὶ ἀθέσφατος ἔπλετο μοῦνον͵ φροντίσι κόσμον ἅπαντα καταΐσσουσα θοῆισιν.

27
ἔνθ΄ οὔτ΄ ἠελίοιο διείδεται ὠκέα γυῖα οὐδὲ μὲν οὐδ΄ αἴης λάσιον μένος οὐδὲ θάλασσα· οὕτως Ἁρμονίης πυκινῶι κρύφωι ἐστήρικται Σφαῖρος κυκλοτερὴς μονίηι περιηγέι γαίων.
 

Cf. ANAXIMANDER : The limitless limits ||| XENOPHANES : God is totally different ||| HERACLITUS : The Word is Common ||| PARMENIDES : Being is all there is ||| PLATO : The Real World, Motions of the universe, The Creator, The world is a living being, A moving image of eternity ||| ARISTOTLE : God, Divine thought, Nature, Substance of the elements, One ||| DIONYSIUS THE AREOPAGITE : All-comprehending Smallness and Super-essential Identity

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