Book 9
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Who knoweth if to die be but to live, And that called life by mortals be but death? So too EmpedoclesFr. 2, l. 7.: So to these mortal may not list nor look Nor yet conceive them in his mind; and before thatIb. l. 5.: Each believes naught but his experience. And even Heraclitus: Let us not conjecture on deepest questions what is likely.Fr. 47 D., 48 B. Then again Hippocrates showed himself two-sided and but human. And before them all HomerIl. xx. 248-250.: Pliant is the tongue of mortals; numberless the tales within it; and Ample is of words the pasture, hither thither widely ranging; and And the saying which thou sayest, back it cometh later on thee, here he is speaking of the equal value of contradictory sayings.
