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, who dedicated——to him his poem On Nature. There is: extant a Greek epigram on this Pausanias, which the Greek Anthology attributes to Simonides, but Diogenes Laërtius to Empedocles. These two sources also differ as to whether he was born. Or buried, at Gela in Sicily.
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