Empedocles
quoted 8 times by 6 works · as a person
also in the atlas: Empedocles the figure
Most often carried — quoted as a source. The locus given for each is the passage in the quoting book; the harvest records no place inside what is quoted, and nothing here pretends to.
1 quoted · 1 reported · 6 carried
3 neutral 3 refuted 1 extendedin the voice of Cicero 1 , Empedocles 1 , The commentator 1
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in the voice of Empedocles
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Stromata Clement of Alexandria 1 neutral 1 refuted 1 extended 3 citations · 6 passages
Direct quotation attributed explicitly to Empedocles.
as Empedocles says, having come hither, he dwells among mortals.
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On the Nature of the Gods Cicero, Marcus Tullius 1 refuted 1 citation
The passage explicitly reports Empedocles's doctrine of divine elements before criticizing it.
For he would have the four elements, out of which he holds that all things consist, to be divine;
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in the voice of Cicero
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Tusculan Disputations Cicero, Marcus Tullius 1 neutral 1 citation
Empedocles's specific doctrine is reported as an authoritative teaching, matching the citation entry for his theory.
" Empedocles holds the soul to be the blood suffused about the heart;
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De Rerum Natura Lucretius 1 refuted 1 citation · 53 passages
Empedocles is named and his four-element doctrine attributed to him, constituting a citation-quote event.
As first Empedocles of Acragas,
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Meditations Marcus Aurelius 1 citation
Empedocles' phrase about the sphere is invoked as an authoritative poetic image.
if, I say, you separate from this ruling faculty the things attached to it through the passions, and the things of time beyond or behind it, and make yourself such as Empedocles' "sphere, rounded, rejoicing in its circling rest," and practise to live only that which you live, that is, the present — then you will be able to pass the remainder of your time until death untroubled, kindly, and at peac …
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in the voice of The commentator
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Risālat baqāʼ al-nafs baʻda fanāʼ al-jasad Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī 1 neutral 1 citation · 2 passages
His view is attributed with yadhhab anna and the author draws from it the consequence that the agent cause is denied.
And among them is Empedocles (Anbādqalis) (2), who holds that the incorruptible aether is among the principles of things;
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