PARMANYDES. Parmenides of Elea, said to be 65 years old in 450 B.C., founded the Eleatic School of Philosophy and was the first to declare that the earth was round (Diogenes Laertius IX.3). His most famous pupil was Zeno of Elea.

Lady Philosophy quotes Parmanydes that the divine substance turns the world and the movable circle of things, while the divine substance keeps itself without moving, Bo III, Prosa 12.189-199. Boethius quotes Parmenides in Greek, then explains in Latin: "rerum orbem mobilem rotat, dum se immobilem ipsa conservat," "it turns the moving circle of the universe while it keeps itself unmoved." [Eleaticis: Plato: Zeno]

Parmanydes is the ME variant of Greek Parmenides, which also appears in Latin.