Parmenides was born at Elea (the Romans changed the name to Velia). I have seen this quotation from his work translated into English as: “It is necessary to say and to think that What Is is; for it is to be, but nothing it is not.”
Parmenides was born at Velia (then known as Elea) as was his pupil Zeno who, like his teacher, went on to be counted amongst the greatest philosophers of ancient Greece.
The Phraser 
