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The grammarian Apollodorus in his Chronology tells us that He was the son of Meton, and Glaucus says he went to Thurii, just then founded.445-444 b.c. Then farther on he adds: Those who relate that, being exiled from his home, he went to Syracuse and fought in their ranks against the Athenians seem, in my judgement at least, to be completely mistaken. For by that time either he was no longer living or in extreme old age, which is inconsistent with the story. For Aristotle and Heraclides both affirm that he died at the age of sixty. The victor with the ridinghorse in the 71st Olympiad was This man’s namesake and grandfather, so that Apollodorus in one and the same passage indicates the date as well as the fact.
2.53
But Satyrus in his Lives states that Empedocles was the son of Exaenetus and himself left a son named Exaenetus, and that in the same Olympiad Empedocles himself was victorious in the horse-race and his son in wrestling, or, as Heraclidesi.e. Heraclides Lembus. in his Epitome has it, in the foot-race. I foundCf. Introd. p. xiv. in the Memorabilia of Favorinus a statement that Empedocles feasted the sacred envoys on a sacrificial ox made of honey and barley-meal, and that he had a brother named Callicratides. Telauges, the son of Pythagoras, in his letter to Philolaus calls Empedocles the son of Archinomus.
2.54
That he belonged to Agrigentum in Sicily he himself testifies at the beginning of his PurificationsFr. 112 D.: My friends, who dwell in the great city sloping down to yellow Acragas, hard by the citadel. So much for his family.
