Pausanias of Sicily

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Pausanias of Gela

Pausanias (Greek: Παυσανίας; fl. 5th century BC) was a native of Sicily, Magna Graecia, 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[1], who dedicated his poem On Nature to him.[2] There is an 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.

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