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grbs-4301	Sedley, David	The Proems of Empedocles and Lucretius	1989	28	.pdf	application/pdf	12698	550	61	If Aristotle chooses Empedocles rather than the far more suitable Democritus for that role, it is surely because Empedodes, perhaps alone among the Presocratics, has actually supplied him with an illustration of what a non-teleological explanation of an organism 46 Furley (61 with n.15) supports his thesis with the claim that Lucretius 5.837-41 is a translation of Empedocles B 57. Furley is right to point out the clear reminiscence of Empedocles B 137, in which Empedocles attacks the sin of animal slaughter with the example of a father unwittingly sacrificing his own son, who has transmigrated into the body of an ox.	cache/grbs-4301.pdf	txt/grbs-4301.txt