Ἄκρων
Akron, Acron
Translated by Catharine Roth27 May 2000Vetting: high7 revisions
Translation
Of Akragas;1 physician, son of Xenon; he taught at Athens contemporaneously with Empedocles;2 so he is older than Hippocrates. He wrote On Medicine in the Doric dialect, and On Nutrition of the Healthy in one book. This man is also one of those who diagnosed certain respirations.
It was against him that Empedocles made a mocking epigram: "'the lofty physician Akron of Akragas, son of a lofty father, the lofty crag of his most lofty fatherland hides.' But some cite the second verse thus: 'a lofty tomb of the most lofty peak holds.' Some attribute this to Simonides.3
It was against him that Empedocles made a mocking epigram: "'the lofty physician Akron of Akragas, son of a lofty father, the lofty crag of his most lofty fatherland hides.' But some cite the second verse thus: 'a lofty tomb of the most lofty peak holds.' Some attribute this to Simonides.3