Empedocles is
named as author of the lines:
ἤδη
γὰρ ποτ᾽
ἐγὼ γενόμην
κούρητε
κόρος τε,
Θάμνος τ᾽
οἰωνός τε καὶ
εἰν ἁλὶ
ἔλλοπος
ἰχθύς
cf. Diog. Laert. viii. 78, and
Plutarch, D Solert. An. ii. 964. Whether the “faba
Pythagoræ cognata” of Hor., Sat. ii. 6, 63,
implies the transmigration of the soul into it is doubtful.
cf. Juv., Sat. xv. 153. Anaximander thought
that human beings were originally generated from fish. Plut.,
Symp. viii. 8.