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2 results for "meat-eating"
1. Homer, Iliad, 5.539, 18.535 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)  Tagged with subjects: •meat-eating, prohibited by empedocles Found in books: Petrovic and Petrovic (2016) 90
5.539. / son of Pergasus, whom the Trojans honoured even as the sons of Priam, for that he was swift to fight amid the foremost. Him did lord Agamemnon smite with his spear upon the shield, and this stayed not the spear, but clean through it passed the bronze, and into the lower belly he drave it through the belt; 18.535. / And amid them Strife and Tumult joined in the fray, and deadly Fate, grasping one man alive, fresh-wounded, another without a wound, and another she dragged dead through the mellay by the feet; and the raiment that she had about her shoulders was red with the blood of men. Even as living mortals joined they in the fray and fought;
2. Empedocles, Fragments, None (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)  Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Petrovic and Petrovic (2016) 78