Empedocles

[em-ped-uh-kleez]

noun

c490–c430 b.c., Greek philosopher and statesman.

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Empedocles stayed his feet among the groves of Etna to hear it.
The Call of the Blood
Robert Smythe Hichens
What then are the things in the world from Empedocles' point of view?
Christianity As A Mystical Fact
Rudolf Steiner
He wondered if it really was Thales so much as Empedocles or Ctesias.
The Librarian at Play
Edmund Lester Pearson
Similar boasts occur in the poems of Empedocles and of Taliesin.
Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2)
Andrew Lang
To his left Pythagoras is writing on his knee, and near him, with ink and pen, is Empedocles.
Walks in Rome
Augustus J.C. Hare

British Dictionary definitions for empedocles

Empedocles

noun

?490–430 bc, Greek philosopher and scientist, who held that the world is composed of four elements, air, fire, earth, and water, which are governed by the opposing forces of love and discord

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empedocles in Medicine

Empedocles

[ĕm-pĕd′ə-klēz′]Fifth century bc

Greek philosopher who believed that all matter is composed of elemental particles of fire, water, earth, and air.