Empedocles

1. De amicorum multitudine Plutarch 1 authority 1 citation · 2 passages

   de amicorum multitudine 2 passages anchored here

   Empedocles is named explicitly twice as the source of a phrase and an image, both of which the passage adopts and builds directly upon.

   and whereas single friendship by kind discourses and good offices cements, unites, and condenses as it were two par ties,— As when the fig-tree’s juice curdles and binds white milk, as Empedocles says;

2. De fortuna Plutarch 1 authority 1 citation

   de fortuna

   Empedocles is named explicitly as the source of the quoted line within the catalogue of animal endowments.

   and the urchin’s back, (saith Empedocles) bristles with prickly thorns;

3. De Superstitione Plutarch 1 neutral 1 citation

   de superstitione

   Empedocles's verse is quoted and then explicitly set apart from the Carthaginian practice ('not such as Empedocles speaks of'), used descriptively rather than as endorsed or refuted doctrine.

   Had it not been much better for the so much famed Gauls and Scythians to have neither thought nor imagined nor heard any thing of their Gods, than to have believed them such as would be pleased with the blood of human sacrifices, and would account such for the most complete and meritorious of expiations?

4. Demetrius Plutarch 1 extended 1 citation

   chapter 5

   The narrator extends Empedocles's cosmological doctrine of love and strife among elements as an analogy for the intensified wars among Alexander's neighboring successors.

   But just as among the elements of the universe, according to Empedocles, love and hate produce mutual dissension and war, particularly among those elements which touch or lie near one another, so the continuous wars which the successors of Alexander waged against one another were aggravated and more inflamed in some cases by the close proximity of interests and territories, as at this time in the …

5. Quomodo adulator ab amico internoscatur Plutarch 1 neutral 1 citation

   ch. 1

   Named explicitly ('Empedocles's elements') as the source of the four-elements doctrine playfully invoked in Arcesilaus's visit to the sick Apelles.

   and sitting by his bedside, You have got nothing here, said he, but Empedocles’s elements, fire, water, earth, and the surrounding air;

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