[139] ll. 15-19, Karsten; 377-380, Stein.
[140] μεμερισμένου, minutatim divisi, Cr.
[141] ἐγκρατεῖς εἶναι, “to be abstainers.”
[142] ll. 1, 2, Karsten; 369, 370, Stein.
[143] νοητήν, as before.
[144] ἐπινοεῖσθαι.
[145] Reading for ἀδινῇσιν ... πραπίδεσσιν, ἰδυιῄσι πραπίδεσσιν, as in Hom., Il., I, 608.
[146] Φύσις ἑκάστῳ, “the nature of each one”?
[147] Cf. ll. 313 sqq., Karsten, and 222 sqq., Stein. Schneidewin has restored the very bad text in Philologus, VI, 166. But the lines are still obscure—even for Empedocles. They seem to hint at a hidden meaning, to be got by study.
[148] κολοβοδάκτυλος. See Journal of Classical and Sacred Philology (Cambridge), March 1855, p. 87. The story of St. Mark cutting off his thumb to make himself ineligible for the priesthood is quoted by Cruice from St. Jerome.