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IN the Catalogue of the Tytbagoreansy we find Etnfeciocks , not the leaft eminent amongft them. He was of ^grigentu/ny the moft confi- derable City, next Syracufe, of Sicily ; built by a Colony (a) of Geloans, io8 years after their own foundation. Gela was built 4 j years after Syracufe ; Syracufe in the i ith Olympiad, Gela therefore in the 22^. Agrigentum in the It had its name from the River, and {b) grew in a fhort while to fo vaft an increafe, that in the time Empedocles it contained 800000 Inhabi¬
tants. Eminent it was for many things, but for none fo much as the birth of Empedocles : Whence Lucretius :
(c) An Agrigentine Cittz.en ^mongfi tbsfe Is chief and principaf Empedocles ;
Born on the fbore o/Sicil’i trpile bounds y Which the Ionian in wide bayes fwrounds. Laving its cliff's with azure wavesy wboje force And rapid current Italy divorce
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