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“πάλιν δ᾽ Ἄκρωνος τοῦ ἰατροῦ τόπον αἰτοῦντος παρὰ τῆς βουλῆς εἰς κατασκευὴν πατρῴου μνήματος διὰ τὴν ἐν τοῖς ἰατροῖς ὰκρότητα, παρελθὼν ὁ Ἐμπεδοκλῆς ἐκώλυσε τά τε ἄλλα περὶ ἰσότητος διαλεχθεὶς καί τι καὶ τοιοῦτον ἐρωτήσας ‘τί δὲ ἐπιγράψομεν ἐλεγεῖων; ἢ τοῦτο:

ἄκρον ἰητρὸν Ἄκρων᾽, Ἀκραγαντῖνον πατρὸς Ἄκρου
κρύπτει κρημνὸς ἄκρος πατρίδος ἀκροτάτης.

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’ τινὲς δὲ τὸν δεύτερον στίχον οὕτω προφέρονται:

ἀκροτάτης κορυφῆς τύμβος ἄκρος κάτεχει.

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τοῦτό τινες Σιμωνίδου φασὶν εἶναι.

”

Diog. L. 8. 65
“ἦν δ᾽ ὁ Παυσανίας, ὥς φησιν Ἀρίστιππος καὶ Σάτυρος, ἐρώμενος αὐτοῦ, ᾧ δὴ καὶ τὰ Περὶ Φύσεως προσπεφώνηκει （ὁ Ἐμπεδοκλῆς） οὕτως: fr. 1 *diels. ἀλλὰ καὶ ἐπίγραμμα εἰς αὐτὸν ἐποίησε:

Παυσανίην ἰητρὸν ἐπώνυμον, Ἀγχίτεω υἱόν,
τόνδ᾽ Ἀσκληπιάδην πατρὶς ἔθρεψε Φέλα:
ὃς πλείστους κρυεραῖσι μαραινομένους ὑπὸ νούσοις
φῶτας ἀπέστρεψεν Φερσεφόνης θαλάμων.

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” Diog. L. 8. 60
Elegy and Iambus. with an English Translation by. J. M. Edmonds. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1931. 1.

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