Note 519 — Chapter V · EMPEDOKLES OF AKRAGAS

I follow the wilder form of the story given by Diog. viii. 60, and not the rationalised version of Plutarch (adv. Col. 1126 b). The epithets ἀλεξανέμας and κωλυσανέμας were perhaps bestowed by some sillographer in mockery; cf. ἀνεμοκοίτης.