`For I myself have already been a boy and a girl, a bush and a bird, and a dumb fish in the sea' (Empedocles, fragment 117). Harrison could have found this quotation in De vita et moribus philosophorum of Diogenes Laertius, though the form of its translation from the Greek seems to have varied between editions; in the Antwerp edition of 1566, for instance (p. 356), it follows the Greek text as `Nam, memini, fueram quondam puer atque puella, Plantaque & ignitus piscis, pernixque volucris'.