Pausanias of Sicily explained

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^[1] of the philosopher Empedocles, 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.

Notes and References

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