![]() How could Herakleitos say that his discourse had always existed? The answer is that in Ionic ἐών means "true" when coupled with words like λόγος Cf. 2.) A difficulty has been raised about the words ἐόντος αἰεί. ↑ The λόγος is primarily the discourse of Herakleitos himself though, as he is a prophet, we may call it his "Word." It can neither mean a discourse addressed to Herakleitos nor yet "reason." (Cf.(Think too of him who forgets where the way leads.) Fragment 72 (A little better, then, Heraclitus has considered human opinions to be children's toys.) Fragment 71 First, those of men wholly purified, such as would rarely happen in the case of a single individual, as Heraclitus says, or of a certain very few men.) Fragment 70 (129) (Therefore Heraclitus rightly called them "atonements," since they are to make amends for evils and render the souls free from the dangers in generation.) Fragment 69 cui sententiae Heraclitus adquiescens optimam similitudinem dat de aranea ad animam, de tela araneae ad corpus, sic(ut) aranea, ait, stans in medio telae sentit, quam cito musca aliquem filum suum corrumpit itaque illuc celeriter currit quasi de fili persectione dolens, sic hominis anima aliqua parte corporis laesa, illuc festine meat, quasi impatiens laesionis corporis, cui firme et proportionaliter iuncta est. Ita vitalis calor a sole procedens omnibus quae vivunt vitam subministrat. ![]() ![]() (36) God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger but he takes various shapes, just as fire, when it is mingled with spices, is named according to the savour of each.
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