Sotion says that he was the first to maintain that all things are incognizable, but Sotion is in error. One of his poems is The Founding of Colophon, and another The Settlement of a Colony at Elea in Italy, making 2000 lines in all. He flourished about the 60th Olympiad. 6 That he buried his sons with his own hands like Anaxagoras c is stated by Demetrius of Phalerum in his work On Old Age and by Panaetius the Stoic in his book Of Cheerfulness. He is believed to have been sold into slavery by <\ . . and to have been set free by> the Pythagoreans Parmeniscus and Orestades : so Favorinus in the first book of his Memorabilia. There was also another Xenophanes, of Lesbos, an iambic poet. Such were the " sporadic " philosophers. Chapter 3. PARMENIDES* [for. c. 500 B.C.] Parmenides, a native of Elea, son of Pyres, was a pupil of Xenophanes (Theophrastus in his Epitome makes him a pupil of Anaximander). e Parmenides, however, though he was instructed by Xenophanes, was no follower of his. According to Sotion ^ he also associated with Ameinias the Pythagorean, who was the son of Diochaetas and a worthy gentleman though poor. This Ameinias he was more inclined to follow, * Diets considers this sentence to be a marginal note of an editor referring to Xenophanes, not Parmenides. f Sotion would thus appear to separate Parmenides from Xenophanes. Compare note a on p. 426. Diels conjectures that an epitaph on the Pythagoreans mentioned is the ultimate authority here.