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Headword:
Hêrakleitos
Adler number: eta,471
Translated headword: Herakleitos, Heraclitus
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Proper name.[1]
Heraclitus said that he valued the body very little and considered it more to be discarded than excrement. [He said that] he fulfilled its needs as simply as possible as long as he was under the god's orders to use his body as a tool.[2]
Greek Original:Hêrakleitos: onoma kurion. hoti Hêrakleitos ephê, oligôrein pantê tou sômatos kai nomizein auto kopriôn ekblêtoteron: ek tou rhaistou de autôi tas therapeias apoplêroun, heôs an ho theos hôsper organôi tôi sômati chrêsthai epitattêi.
Notes:
[1] That of -- principally -- the philosopher H. of
Ephesus (fl. 500 BCE); cf.
eta 472, and see generally OCD(4) s.v. '
Heraclitus(1)'.
[2] Julian,
Oration 7, 226C.
Keywords: biography; ethics; imagery; philosophy; religion; rhetoric
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 7 March 2002@21:16:19.
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