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At about that time Empedocles of Agrigentum was eminent in the domain of natural philosophy. Flourished about 450 B.C. In § 14–15 Leuze sees the chronology of Fabius Pictor. But at Rome at that epoch it is stated that a board of ten was appointed 451 B.C. to codify laws, and that at first they compiled ten tables, to which afterwards two more were added.
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Then the great Peloponnesian war began in Greece, which Thucydides has handed down to memory, about three hundred and twenty-three years after the founding of Rome. 431 B.C. At that time Olus Postumius Tubertus was dictator at Rome, and executed his own son, because he had fought against the enemy contrary to his father's order. The people of Fidenae and the Aequians were then at war with the Roman people. See note on § 11, above. Here the contrast is still more marked. During that period Sophocles, and later Euripides, were famous and renowned as tragic poets, Hippocrates as a physician, and as a philosopher, Democritus; Socrates the Athenian was younger than these, Born 469 B.C. but was in part their contemporary.
