Vitae philosophorum

Thou, Empedocles, didst cleanse thy body with nimble flame, fire didst thou drink from everlasting bowls.[*](i.e. the craters of Etna.) I will not say that of thine own will thou didst hurl thyself into the stream of Etna; thou didst fall in against thy will when thou wouldst fain not have been found out.

And another[*](Anth. Pal. vii. 124.):

Verily there is a tale about the death of Empedocles, how that once he fell from a carriage and broke his right thigh. But if he leapt into the bowls of fire and so took a draught of life, how was it that his tomb was shown still in Megara?