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3 results for "spitting"
1. Empedocles, Fragments, None (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)  Tagged with subjects: •spitting, sea spits out the daimon Found in books: Petrovic and Petrovic (2016) 84
2. Plutarch, On The Eating of Flesh I, None (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)  Tagged with subjects: •spitting, sea spits out the daimon Found in books: Petrovic and Petrovic (2016) 84
996b. is no worse than he who slaughters it outright. But it seems that we are more observant of acts contrary to convention than of those that are contrary to nature. In that place, then, Imade my remarks in a popular vein. Istill hesitate, however, to attempt a discussion of the principle underlying my opinion, great as it is, and mysterious and incredible, as Plato says, with merely clever men of mortal opinions, just as a steersman hesitates to shift his course in the midst of a storm, or a playwright to raise his god from the machine in the midst of a play. Yet perhaps it is not unsuitable to set the pitch and announce the theme by quoting some verses of Empedocles. ... By these lines he means, though he does not say so directly, that human souls are imprisoned in mortal bodies as a punishment for murder, the eating of animal flesh, and cannibalism.
3. Plutarch, On Exilio, None (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)  Tagged with subjects: •spitting, sea spits out the daimon Found in books: Petrovic and Petrovic (2016) 84
607c. but by coming to Thebes expatriated his 'descendant,' Euhius Dionysus, Rouser of women, Him that is adored in frenzy"? Now as to the matters at which Aeschylus hinted darkly when he said And pure Apollo, god exiled from heaven "let my lips" in the words of Herodotus "be sealed"; Empedocles, however, when beginning the presentation of his philosophy, says by way of prelude: Alaw there is, an oracle of Doom, of old enacted by the assembled gods, That if a Daemon — such as live for ages— Defile himself with foul and sinful murder, He must for seasons thrice ten thousand roam Far from the Blest: such is the path Itread,