Empedocles, Apoet of Agrigentum, that wrote of naturall philosophie in verses. He was of that minde and opinion, that no liuing thing ought to be eaten: that all things hadde their beginning of anitle and diseorde: that the soule was not in the heade or hearte, but dispersed throughout all the bloud: and that men were most senlible in those parts, where the soule was most. The report is that, to the ende he mighte be counted by his sodaine departure a God immortal, hee stole priuilie in the night from his companie, and cast himselfe into the mouth of the mountaine Aetna, but his yron patennes or pantosles being cast vp again by vehemencie of the slame, bewrayed which way he was become.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
Empĕdŏcles, is (gen. -cli, Gell. 4, 11, 9; acc. -clem, Cic. Ac. 1, 12, 44; -clen, id. ib. 2, 5, 14 al.), m., = *)empedoklh=s, a famous natural philosopher of Agrigentum, about 460 B. C., Lucr. 1, 716 sq.; Cic. N. D. 1, 12; id. de Or. 1, 50, 217; id. Tusc. 1, 9, 19; Quint. 1, 4, 4; 3, 1, 8; Plin. 29, 1, 4, 5; Gell. 17, 21, 14; Hor. Ep. 1, 12, 20; id. A. P. 465.—Hence, II. Empĕdoclēus, a, um, adj., Empedoclean: sanguis (acc. to his doctrine, the soul), Cic. Tusc. 1, 17fin.— Subst.: Empĕdoclēa, ōrum, n., Empedoclean doctrines, id. Q. Fr. 2, 11 fin.