Empedocles
Epigrams (doubtful attribution)
Traditional attribution
Epigrams (doubtful attribution)
Ἐπιγράμματα
Two epigrams transmitted by Diogenes Laertius: the praise of the physician Pausanias son of Anchitus, born at Gela, and the play on Acron's name ("the topmost physician Acron of Acragas..."), which some ascribed to Simonides.
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Authorship note
Doubtful attribution. Diogenes Laertius (VIII 61 and 65) ascribes to him an epigram honouring Pausanias and another, with wordplay, on the physician Acron, which others assigned to Simonides.
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Other works by Empedocles
- On Nature · 450
- Purifications · 445
- Strasbourg papyrus (fragments of On Nature, book I) · 90
- The Crossing of Xerxes (lost)
- Proem to Apollo (lost)
- Tragedies (disputed attribution)
- Political writings (lost)
- Medical Discourse (lost)
- The Sphere (spurious)
- Book of the Five Substances and other Arabic texts (spurious)
Sources
- Diógenes Laercio. Vidas y opiniones de los filósofos ilustres VIII 51–77 (Empédocles), s. III d. C. Trad. inglesa de C. D. Yonge, Bohn, Londres, 1853 (Project Gutenberg n.º 57342); trad. inglesa de R. D. Hicks, Loeb, 1925 (Wikisource).
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