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APOLLO
What was his idea, Zeus, in doing that to himself, or what was the good of his getting incinerated by jumping into the blazing pyre?ZEUS
Well, that criticism, my boy, you had better address first to Empedocles, who himself sprung into that crater in Sicily.APOLLO
A terrible case of melancholia, that! But this man—what reason in the world did he have for wanting to do it?ZEUS
I will repeat for you a speech of his own, which he delivered to the assembled pilgrims, defending himself before them for putting an end to himself.Fugitivi. Lucian of Samosata. Austin Morris Harmon (Translator). United States. Perseus 5.0.
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