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according to Diog. Laert, i. 72, Anacharsis.

_Empedocles._ See note on Apologia, chap. 27.

_Epicharmus_, a famous comic poet of Megara in Sicily. He flourished early in the fifth century B.C.

_Xenocrates._ Diog. Laert. mentions five writers of this name, none of them of any great importance. It is possible that we should read _Xenophanes_, who, according to Diog. Laert. ix. 10, wrote _silli_, a form of lampoon or satire. He was the founder of the Eleatic school and probably flourished about 500 B.C.