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not breathing
They 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…
Ἄπνους· φασὶν Ἐμπεδοκλέα Παυσανίᾳ ὑφηγήσασθαι τὸν Ἄπνουν. εἶναι δὲ τὸν Ἄπνουν τοιοῦτον, ὡς λʹ ἡμέρας συντηρεῖν ἄπνουν καὶ ἄσιτον τὸ σῶμα. ἦν δὲ οὗτος καὶ γόης. καί φησι περὶ…