Pausanias of Sicily

Pausanias of Sicily

Pausanias was a native of Sicily in the 5th century BC, who belonged to the family of the Asclepiadae, and whose father's name was Anchitus. He was a physician, and an eromenos of the philosopher Empedocles, who dedicated to him his poem "On Nature". [Diogenes Laërtius, viii. 60; Suda, "Apnous"; Galen, "De Meth. Med." i. 1. vol. x.] There is extant a Greek "epigram" on this Pausanias, which the Greek Anthology attributes to Simonides, [Greek Anthology, vii. 508] but Diogenes Laërtius to Empedocles. [Diogenes Laërtius, viii. 60] The latter opinion appears to be more probable, as Simonides, who died in 468 BC, would have been much older than he was. These two sources also differ as to whether he was born, or buried, at Gela in Sicily.

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