Book 8
2.65
Again, when Acron the physician asked the council for a site on which to build a monument to his father, who had been eminent among physicians, Empedocles came forward and forbade it in a speech where he enlarged upon equality and in particular put the following question: But what inscription shall we put upon it? Shall it be this? Acron the eminent physician of Agrigentum, son of Acros, is buried beneath the steep eminence of his most eminent native city?Anth. Plan. v. 4. Others give as the second line: Is laid in an exalted tomb on a most exalted peak. Some attribute this couplet to Simonides.
