在他92岁的时候,我们看到,他仍然过着四处游荡的生活,这与下面的陈述完全不吻合,即说他在爱利亚定居,找到所学校云云。("In his ninety-second year he was still, we have seen, leading a wandering life, which is hardly consistent with the statement that he settled at Elea and founded a school there, especially if we are to think of him as spending his last days at Hieron's court, It is very remarkable that no ancient writer expressly says he ever was at Elea, and all the evidence we have seems inconsistent with his having settled there at all.")[14]
诗作
根据第欧根尼·拉尔修,色诺芬尼用六音步诗行写的哀诗和抑扬诗,反对荷马和赫西俄德。[8]拉尔修也提到了两篇关于founding of Colophon and Elea的史诗,但是以上这些都仅存标题。[9] 没有文献说色诺芬尼写了哲学诗作。[15]新柏拉图主义哲学家辛普利修斯写道,他从来没有见过关于 the earth stretching infinitely downwards 的韵文(fr. 28),尽管他有很多的哲学书籍。一些哲学残片可以从荷马的评论家作品里发现,[16] 因此也有可能色诺芬尼的哲学评论可能不经意间在他的讽刺作品里得到表达。[17] 这些讽刺作品被之后的写作者叫做 Silloi(英语:Silloi),这个名字有机会可以追溯到色诺芬尼自己,但也有可能是斐利亞修斯的第蒙,所谓“silloi写作者”(前3世纪),把他自己的讽刺作品加在了色诺芬尼头上。[17]
^"Xenophanes of Colophon" (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆) The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy. Simon Blackburn. Oxford University Press, 2008. Oxford Reference Online. Oxford University Press. 12 October 2011.
^Early Greek Philosophy by John Burnet, 3rd edition (1920) (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆): "The oldest reference to a poem Περὶ φύσεως is in the Geneva scholium on Iliad xxi. 196 (quoting fr. 30), and this goes back to [[马鲁斯的克拉特斯|]]. We must remember that such titles are of later date, and Xenophanes had been given a place among philosophers long before the time of rates. All we can say, therefore, is that the Pergamene librarians gave the title Περὶ φύσεως to some poem of Xenophanes."
^Three fragments (27, 31, 33) come from the Homeric Allegories, two (30, 32) are from Homeric scholia.