Pausanias of Sicily

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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 Empedocles, who dedicated to him his poem On Nature.[1] There is extant a Greek epigram on this Pausanias, which the Greek Anthology attributes to Simonides,[2] but by Diogenes Laërtius to Empedocles.[3] The latter opinion appears to be more probable, as Simonides, who died in 468 BC, would have been much older than him. These two sources also differ as to whether he was born, or buried, at Gela in Sicily.

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  1. ^ Diogenes Laërtius, viii. 60; Suda, Apnous; Galen, De Meth. Med. i. 1. vol. x.
  2. ^ Greek Anthology, vii. 508
  3. ^ Diogenes Laërtius, viii. 60

This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William Smith (1870).