Thales, the son of Examyas, has met a harsh fate in his old age. He left the court of his house at night, as he was wont, with his maidservant to view the stars, and as he gazed, forgetting where he was, he came to a steep slope and fell over. Thus the Milesians lost their astronomer.
–Letter, Anaximenes to Pythagorus, in Diogenes Laertius’, Lives of the Philosophers
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