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Ἐμπεδοκλέους ἔχθρα · Empedokles' hatred, Empedocles' hatred (ε 1004) · Suda

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Near ε1004

ε1000steadfast, strong
ε1001Empedokles, Empedocles
ε1002Empedokles, Empedocles
ε1003Empedocles, Empedokles
ε1004Empedokles' hatred, Empedocles' hatred
ε1005grounded
ε1006to abide by an oath
ε1007Empedotimos, Empedotimus
ε1008to be grounded, to be ratified

Suda/Ε epsilon/ε1004

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Ἐμπεδοκλέους ἔχθρα

Empedokles' hatred, Empedocles' hatred

Translated by Marta Steele8 Jun 2000Vetting: high5 revisions

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1 note · 35 words

Translation

[sc. A proverbial phrase] in reference to those persistently hostile to people. Lysias [writes]: "for my part I considered myself bound in such a friendship that not even the hatred of Empedokles would impede us".¹

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἐμπεδοκλέους ἔχθρα· ἐπὶ τῶν ἐπιμόνως ἐχθρωδούντων πρός τινας. Λυσίας· ᾤμην δὲ ἔγωγε τοιαύτῃ φιλίᾳ συνηρμόσθαι, ὥστε μηδ' ἂν τὴν Ἐμπεδοκλέους ἔχθραν ἐμποδὼν ἡμῖν γενέσθαι.

Betacode

*)empedokle/ous e)/xqra: e)pi\ tw=n e)pimo/nws e)xqrwdou/ntwn pro/s tinas. *lusi/as: w)/|mhn de\ e)/gwge toiau/th| fili/a| sunhrmo/sqai, w(/ste mhd' a)\n th\n *)empedokle/ous e)/xqran e)mpodw\n h(mi=n gene/sqai.

Notes (1)

For Empedokles cf. (epsilon 1001,) epsilon 1002, epsilon 1003.
1Lysias fr. 261 Sauppe, now 459 Carey OCT; from a letter. (It underlines its point with wordplay: Empedokles/e)mpodw\n "impede".) The phrase sounds proverbial already by this time, and it certainly became so later: see Diogenianus 4.77 and other paroemiographers.

Linked from4 entries

α3242Ἄπνουςnot breathingThey say that Empedocles told [sc. his friend] Pausanias about the Non-Breather. [He said that] the Non-Breather was someone who for 30 days kept his body without breath and without food. This man [Empedocles] was also…
ε1001ἘμπεδοκλῆςEmpedokles, Empedocles[Empedokles], maternal grandson of the former [Empedokles]; tragedian. His tragedies [number] 24.
ε1002ἘμπεδοκλῆςEmpedokles, Empedocles[Empedokles], son of Meton, though some [say] Archinomos and others Xenetos; and he had a brother Kallikratides. He studied first with Parmenides, and, according to Porphyry in his Philosophical History, became his…
ε1003ἘμπεδοκλῆςEmpedocles, EmpedoklesThey say that the Agrigentian Empedokles followed in the steps of Pythagoras, as Apollonius of Tyana also did. For [they say that] he associated with the gods and learned from them what in men they find pleasing and…

Neighbouring entries

ε1002ἘμπεδοκλῆςEmpedokles, Empedocles ε1003ἘμπεδοκλῆςEmpedocles, Empedokles ε1004Ἐμπεδοκλέους ἔχθραEmpedokles' hatred, Empedocles' hatred ε1005Ἔμπεδονgrounded ε1006Ἐμπεδορκεῖνto abide by an oath

Revision history5 revisions · last 27 Dec 2015

27 Dec 2015expanded n.1; another keyword — David Whitehead
19 Aug 2012Revised — David Whitehead
19 Aug 2012updated note; more keywords; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
6 Oct 2004augmented note; cosmetics — David Whitehead
28 Nov 2000added note and keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
8 Jun 2000Translated — Marta Steele

Cite this entry

Suda On Line, s.v. Ἐμπεδοκλέους ἔχθρα (Adler number epsilon 1004), trans. Marta Steele, 8 Jun 2000. https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/epsilon/1004

Translation by Marta Steele for Suda On Line, revised by David Whitehead, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Shown unchanged, under the same licence, non-commercially. Original on SOL ↗