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Νημερτής τ' ἐρόεσσα μελάγκουρός τ' Άσάϕεια
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 October 2013
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In frr. 122B and 123B (DK) Empedocles mentions a series of opposite personifications, e.g. Beauty and Ugliness (122.3), Movement and Rest (123.2); the last pair mentioned in fr. 122 is Nemertes–Asapheia.
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