Pausanias of Sicily

Pausanias (Greek: Παυσανίας; fl. 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

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

References

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