There are many epigrams extant which were written upon him, and this is one of them:—
And there is another expressed thus:—
XIII. There were five people of the name of Heraclitus. The first was this philosopher of ours. The second a lyric poet, who wrote a panegyrical hymn on the Twelve Gods. The third was an Elegiac poet, of Halicarnassus; on whom Callimachus wrote the following epigram:—
The fourth was a Lesbian, who wrote a history of Macedonia. The fifth was a man who blended jest with earnest; and who, having been a harp-player, abandoned that profession for a serio-comic style of writing.
LIFE OF XENOPHANES.
I. Xenophanes was the son of Dexius, or, as Apollodorus says, of Orthomenes. He was a citizen of Colophon; and is praised by Timon. Accordingly, he says:—
He, having been banished from his own country, lived at Zancle, in Sicily, and at Catana.
II. And, according to the statements made by some people, he was a pupil of no