ἀγρὸν Μηνοφάνης ὠνήσατο, καὶ διὰ λιμὸν
ἐκ δρυὸς ἀλλοτρίας αὑτὸν ἀπηγχόνισεν.
γῆν δ᾽ αὐτῷ τεθνεῶτι βαλεῖν οὐκ ἔσχον ἄνωθεν,
ἀλλ᾽ ἐτάφη μισθοῦ πρός τινα τῶν ὁμόρων.

εἰ δ᾽ ἔγνω τὸν ἀγρὸν τὸν Μηνοφάνους Ἐπίκουρος,
πάντα γέμειν ἀγρῶν εἶπεν ἄν, οὐκ ἀτόμων.

— Paton edition

Ménophanès s'était acheté un champ et, forcé par la faim, il s'est pendu au chêne d'un voisin. De terre pour recouvrir le mort, il n'y en avait pas assez; on alla l'enterrer en payant chez l'un de ses voisins. Si Épicure l'eût connu ce champ de Ménophanès, il eût dit que l'Univers était plein de champs, non d'atomes.

— Waltz edition

Menophanes bought a field, and from hunger hanged himself on another man’s oak. When he was dead they had no earth to throw over him from above, but he was buried for payment in the ground of one of his neighbours. If Epicurus had known of Menophanes’ field he would have said that everything is full of fields, not of atoms.

— Paton edition

Menophanes bought a field, and from hunger hanged himself on another man’s oak. When he was dead they had no earth to throw over him from above, but he was buried for payment in the ground of one of his neighbours. If Epicurus had known of Menophanes’ field he would have said that everything is full of fields, not of atoms.

— Paton edition

Ménophanès s'était acheté un champ et, forcé par la faim, il s'est pendu au chêne d'un voisin. De terre pour recouvrir le mort, il n'y en avait pas assez; on alla l'enterrer en payant chez l'un de ses voisins. Si Épicure l'eût connu ce champ de Ménophanès, il eût dit que l'Univers était plein de champs, non d'atomes.

— Waltz edition

ἀγρὸν Μηνοφάνης ὠνήσατο, καὶ διὰ λιμὸν
ἐκ δρυὸς ἀλλοτρίας αὑτὸν ἀπηγχόνισεν.
γῆν δ᾽ αὐτῷ τεθνεῶτι βαλεῖν οὐκ ἔσχον ἄνωθεν,
ἀλλ᾽ ἐτάφη μισθοῦ πρός τινα τῶν ὁμόρων.

εἰ δ᾽ ἔγνω τὸν ἀγρὸν τὸν Μηνοφάνους Ἐπίκουρος,
πάντα γέμειν ἀγρῶν εἶπεν ἄν, οὐκ ἀτόμων.

— Paton edition