Pausanias of Sicily

Pausanias (Greek: Παυσανίας; fl.

5th century BC) was a native of Sicily, Magna Graecia, who belonged to the family of the Asclepiadae and whose father's name was Anchitus.

He was a physician, and an eromenos[1] of the philosopher Empedocles, who dedicated his poem On Nature to him.

[2] There is an extant a Greek epigram on this Pausanias, which the Greek Anthology attributes to Simonides,[3] but Diogenes Laërtius to Empedocles.

[4] These two sources also differ as to whether he was born or buried at Gela in Sicily.