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Greetings to you I am Acròne, son of the philosopher Zeno of Elea. With my childhood friend Empedocles, when I was young, I studied philosophy and rhetoric in Athens. My true passion, however, was medicine and it is to this subject that I dedicated myself, to the point of giving rise to a real school, based exclusively on the concrete experience of facts. A school that Pliny the Elder defined as of the empirics. Over time, I earned admiration and esteem, to the point of deserving the epithet of the highest or supreme among doctors. But success, as often happens, has aroused resentment and envy, alas, even from some friends like Empedocles... But the thing that truly pains me the most is that, everything I had written, to offer my experience to the world, was irretrievably lost, with the destruction of the library of Alexandria.