EARLY GREEK PHILOSOPHY V
EMPEDOCLES [31 DK]
P Chronology (P1–P6)P1 (< A1) Diog. Laert. 8.74
ἤκμαζε δὲ κατὰ τὴν τετάρτην καὶ ὀγδοηκοστὴν Ὀλυμπιάδα.
P2 (cf. A9) Eus. Chron. (= Hier., p. 111.20)
[Ol. 81] Empedocles et Parmenides physici philosophi notissimi habentur.
P3 (< A1) Diog. Laert.
a 8.52
ὁ δὲ <τὴν>1 μίαν καὶ ἑβδομηκοστὴν Ὀλυμπιάδα νενικηκὼς
κέλητι τούτου πάππος2 ἦν ὁμώνυμος
ὥσθ’ ἅμα καὶ3 τὸν χρόνον ὑπὸ τοῦ Ἀπολλοδώρου σημαίνεσθαι [FGrHist 244 F32a].
EMPEDOCLES
EMPEDOCLES
P Chronology (P1–P6)P1 (< A1) Diogenes Laertius
He reached maturity during the 84th Olympiad [= 444/40 BC].1
P2 (cf. A9) Jerome in Eusebius, Chronicle
[Ol. 81 = 456/52] Empedocles and Parmenides, natural philosophers, are considered very celebrated.
P3 (< A1) Diogenes Laertius
a Apollodorus’ indication
The one [scil. the Empedocles] who was victorious at the 71st Olympic games [= 496]
in the horse-race was his grandfather, of the same name,
so that at the same time Apollodorus also indicates the chronology.