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| | Diogenes Laertius Lives of the Philosophers: Empedocles, translated by C.D. Yonge |
 | | BY DIOGENES LAERTIUS, TRANSLATED BY C.D. Empedocles, as Hippobotus relates, was the son of Meton, the son of Empedocles, and a citizen of Agrigentum. |
 | | But Apollodorus, the grammarian, in his Chronicles, says that he was the son of Meton; and Glaucus says that he came to Thurii when the city was only just completed. |
 | | Neanthes, of Cyzicus, who also wrote about the Pythagoreans, says, that when Meton was dead, the seeds of tyrannical power began to appear; and that then Empedocles persuaded the Agrigentines to desist from their factious disputes, and to establish political equality. |
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