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Son of Euphron, from Heracleia in Pontus,[1] descended from Damis, one of those who led the colony from Thebes to Heracleia, and a student of Plato. When Plato traveled to Sicily to found a school, [H.] was left behind there by him.[2]
This man also raised and tamed a snake and dined with it and slept with it. [The snake] alone was found on his couch, though Herakleides had lain down on it healthy, but then was found no more. Some thought he had attained immortality, others that he had thrown himself down a well, so that it would seem to people that he had attained immortality. He wrote a lot.

*(hraklei/dhs, *eu)/fronos, filo/sofos, *(hraklei/as th=s *po/ntou, to\ de\ ge/nos a)/nwqen a)po\ *da/midos, e(no\s tw=n h(ghsame/nwn th=s ei)s *(hra/kleian e)k *qhbw=n a)poiki/as, *pla/twnos gnw/rimos: e)kdhmh/santos de\ *pla/twnos ei)s *sikeli/an, proesta/nai th=s sxolh=s katelei/fqh u(p' au)tou=. ou(=tos kai\ dra/konta e)/qreye kai\ h(me/rwse kai\ ei)=xe sundiaitw/menon au)tw=| kai\ sugkaqeu/donta: o(\s kai\ mo/nos e)pi\ th=s kli/nhs eu(re/qh, tou= *(hraklei/dou katakliqe/ntos me\n u(giou=s, ou)x eu(reqe/ntos de/. kai\ a)/lloi me\n au)to\n a)phqanatei/sqai e)no/misan, a)/lloi de\ e)n fre/ati au(to\n e)mbeblhke/nai, w(s a)\n do/ch| toi=s a)nqrw/pois a)phqanatei/sqai. e)/graye polla/.

"Heraclides Ponticus", C4 BCE; see generally D.J. Furley in OCD(4) s.v 'Heraclides(1)'. For the present material cf. Diogenes Laertius 5.86, 89-90.
[1] For this city, founded c.560 BCE by Boeotian and Megarian settlers, see generally OCD(4) s.v. 'Heraclea(3) Pontica'.
[2] The foregoing is Heraclides 3 Schütrumpf; what follows is 13 Schütrumpf.

Catharine Roth (added note and keyword) on 19 November 2003@00:31:56.
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David Whitehead (adjusted translation, at the prompting of John Granger Cook) on 4 August 2014@11:30:09.
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