"ἤδη γάρ ποτ’ ἐγὼ γενόμην κοῦρός τε κόρη τε/θάμνος τ’ οἰωνός τε καὶ ἔξαλος ἔλλοπος ἰχθύς."
— Empedocles

January 1, 1970

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Variant translations: — Once on a time a youth was I, and I was a maiden/A bush, a bird, and a fish with scales that gleam in the ocean. — tr. Jane Ellen Harrison