Pausanias of Sicily

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Pausanias (5th century BC) was a native of Sicily who belonged to the family of the Asclepiadae, and whose father's name was Anchitus. He was a physician, and an eromenos[1] of the philosopher Empedocles, who dedicated to him his poem On Nature.[2] There is extant a Greek epigram on this Pausanias, which the Greek Anthology attributes to Simonides,[3] but Diogenes Laërtius to Empedocles.[4] These two sources also differ as to whether he was born, or buried, at Gela in Sicily.

Notes

  1. ↑ Diogenes Laërtius, viii. 60: "Pausanias, according to Aristippus and Satyrus, was his eromenos"
  2. ↑ Diogenes Laërtius, viii. 60; Suda, Apnous; Galen, De Meth. Med. i. 1. vol. x.
  3. ↑ Greek Anthology, vii. 508
  4. ↑ Diogenes Laërtius, viii. 61

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1867). "article name needed". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. 

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