Purify - Cleanse

Japanese: 《浄め》 - きよめ
Purify - Cleanse

…Based on this biography, Nietzsche portrays Empedocles as an intermediate, active man who could not be classified as either a physician or a magician, a poet or an orator, a god or a man, a scholar or an artist, a politician or a priest. He wrote two works, On Nature and The Purification. Both were written in the form of poetry, and are said to be 5,000 lines long together, but most of them have been lost and only fragments remain today. …

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "purification" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…ニーチェはこの伝記をもとにしてエンペドクレスを〈医師と魔術師,詩人と雄弁家,神と人,学者と芸術家,政治家と僧侶〉のいずれともきめかねる中間的,活動的人間としている。彼には二つの著作《自然について》と《浄め》があった。ともに詩の形式で書かれ,両者をあわせると5000行になると伝えられているが,ほとんど散逸して現在は断片を残すのみである。…

※「《浄め》」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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