Note 795 — Chapter VIII · THE SACRIFICE
Beatrice M. Hinkle translation
Motive of immortality in the fable of the death of Empedocles. Horace: Deus immortalis haberi—Dum cupit Empedocles ardentem frigidus Aetnam—Insiluit (Empedocles deliberately threw himself into the glowing Aetna because he wanted to be believed an immortal god).