poet of Halicarnassus. on whom Callimachus wrote the following epitaph ° : They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead, They brought me bitter news to hear and bitter tears to shed. I wept as I remembered how often you and I Had tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky. And now that thou art lying, my dear old Carian guest, A handful of grey ashes, long, long ago at rest, Still are thy pleasant voices, thy nightingales, awake : For Death, he taketh all away, but them he cannot take b (4) a Lesbian who wrote a history of Macedonia ; (5) a jester who adopted this profession after having been a musician. Chapter 2. XENOPHANES (570-478 b.c.) Xenophanes. a native of Colophon, the son of Dexius, or. according to Apollodorus, of Orthomenes, is praised by Timon, whose words at all events are : Xenophanes, not over-proud, perverter of Homer, castigator. He was banished from his native city and lived at Zancle in Sicily <and having joined the colony planted at Elea taught there>. He also lived in Catana. According to some he was no man's pupil, 1 Nightingales ' live on, and Death, that insatiate ravisher, shall lay no hand on them." Perhaps " Nightingales " was the title of a work. Laertius deserves our gratitude for inserting this little poem, especially on so slight a pretext. c Diets (/'"'•. Gr. p. 140) compares Hippolvtus, Rtf. Hcter. i. U. 1 ; Plutarch, Strom. 4: Aetius, i. 3. 12, ii." 4. 11, ii. 20. 3, iii. 9. 4, ii. 24. 9, i. 3. 12, iii. 16. 5, ultimately from Theophrastus, Pliys. Opin. Fr. 5, Fr. 16.