Empedocles
Εὐφήμει, ὦ ἄνθρωπε· ἁσμενέστατα μέντοι αὐτὸ ἀπέφυγον, ὥσπερ λυττῶντά τινα καὶ ἄγριον δεσπότην ἀποδράς → Hush, man, most gladly have I escaped this thing you talk of, as if I had run away from a raging and savage beast of a master
English > Greek (Woodhouse)
Ἐμπεδοκλῆς, -κλέους, ὁ.
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
Empĕdŏcles: is (
I gen. -cli, Gell. 4, 11, 9; acc. -clem, Cic. Ac. 1, 12, 44; -clen, id. ib. 2, 5, 14 al.), m., = Ἐμπεδοκλῆς, a famous natural philosopher of Agrigentum, about 460 B. C., Lucr. 1, 716 sq.; Cic. N. D. 1, 12; id. de Or. 1, 50, 217; id. Tusc. 1, 9, 19; Quint. 1, 4, 4; 3, 1, 8; Plin. 29, 1, 4, § 5; Gell. 17, 21, 14; Hor. Ep. 1, 12, 20; id. A. P. 465.—Hence,
II Empĕdoclēus, a, um, adj., Empedoclean: sanguis (acc. to his doctrine, the soul), Cic. Tusc. 1, 17 fin.— Subst.: Empĕdoclēa, ōrum, n., Empedoclean doctrines, id. Q. Fr. 2, 11 fin.>
Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)
Empĕdŏclēs,¹⁴ is, m. (Ἐμπεδοκλῆς), Empédocle philosophe d’Agrigente] : Cic. Tusc. 1, 19 || -ēus, a, um, d’Empédocle : Cic. Tusc. 1, 41 ; Empedoclea, n. pl. Cic. Q. 2, 11, 3, doctrine d’Empédocle.
Latin > German (Georges)
Empedoclēs, is u. ī, Akk. em u. ēn u. ea, m. (Εμπεδοκλης), ein berühmter griechischer Philosoph u. Dichter aus Agrigentum (Girgenti) auf Sizilien, Lehrer des Gorgias, Verfasser eines Gedichtes über die Natur der Dinge, Lucr. 1, 716 sq. Cic. de or. 1, 217. Hor. ep. 1, 12, 20. – Genet. -clī, Gell . 4, 11. § 9 u. 10. Apul. apol. 27: Akk. -clem, Cic. Acad. 1, 12, 44 u. de nat. deor. 1, 93. Cels. 1. praef. p. 2, 13 D.: Akk. -clēn, Cic. Acad. 2, 14: griech. Akk. -clea, Quint. 1, 4, 4 H. – Dav.
