Parmeniscus
2. Of Metapontum, who probably lived about the middle of the fifth century B.. Iamblichus (Vit. Pythugor. 100.36) calls him (according to the common reading) Παρμίσκος, and ranks him among the celebrated Pythagorean philosophers. Athenaeus, (who, 4.156, c. &c., gives a quotation from a letter of a man of this name, containing an account of a Cynic banquet,) narrates (xiv. p. 614a. b.) an incident in his life, connected with a descent into the cave of Trophonius, and calls him rich and high born. He is also mentioned by Diogenes Laertius, 9.20.
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