Note 819 — Chapter VII · SCHOOLS OF THE PHILOSOPHERS AND SOPHISTS.
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Var. Hist. i. 23. Diog. Laert. viii. 58.—Mr. Clinton, however, adopts the opinion of Diogenes (Fast. Hell. ii. 365); and, to render it probable, supposes Empedocles to have been a few years older than his pupil.