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Headword:
*(hra/kleitos
Adler number: eta,472
Translated headword: Herakleitos, Heraclitus
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Son of Bloson or Bautor, but others [say] of Herakis; from
Ephesus; a naturalist philosopher, who was nicknamed "Obscure."[1] This man was a disciple of none of the philosophers, but he trained himself by natural ability and diligence. When this man was sick with dropsy he did not allow the physicians to treat him as they wished; but he himself rubbed himself all over with cow-dung and allowed this to dry in the sun, and as he lay dogs came forward and tore him apart.[2] But others say that he died buried in sand. Some said that he was a student of
Xenophanes and Hippasus the Pythagorean. He lived in the 69th Olympiad,[3] in the reign of Darius the son of Hystaspes, and he wrote many [things] in poetic form.
See under the Delian diver.[4]
*(hra/kleitos, *blo/swnos h)\ *bau/twros, oi( de\ *(hraki=nos: *)efe/sios, filo/sofos fusiko/s, o(\s e)peklh/qh *skoteino/s. ou(=tos e)maqh/teusen ou)deni\ tw=n filoso/fwn, fu/sei de\ kai\ e)pimelei/a| h)skh/qh. ou(=tos u(drwpia/sas ou)k e)nedi/dou toi=s i)atroi=s, h(=|per e)bou/lonto qerapeu/ein au)to/n: a)ll' au)to\s bolbi/tw| xri/sas o(/lon e(auto\n ei)/ase chranqh=nai tou=to u(po\ tw=| h(li/w|, kai\ kei/menon au)to\n ku/nes proelqou=sai die/spasan: oi( de\ a)/mmw| xwsqe/nta fasi\n a)poqanei=n. tine\s de\ au)to\n e)/fasan diakou=sai *cenofa/- nous kai\ *(ippa/sou tou= *puqagorei/ou. h)=n de\ e)pi\ th=s cq# *)olumpia/dos, e)pi\ *darei/ou tou= *(usta/spou, kai\ e)/graye polla\ poihtikw=s. zh/tei e)n tw=| *dhli/ou kolumbhtou=.
Notes:
[1]
Heraclitus of
Ephesus (fl. 500 BCE), Presocratic philosopher, known for his emphasis on processes of change and the complementarity of opposites: see web address 1 (Daniel W. Graham,
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy); OCD(4) s.v. '
Heraclitus(1)'; and already
eta 471.
[2]
Diogenes Laertius has two (less violent) versions of this story (9.1.3-5, web address 2).
[3] 504-501.
[4]
delta 400; cf.
Diogenes Laertius 9.1.12.
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: biography; chronology; ethics; geography; history; medicine; philosophy; poetry; zoology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 11 March 2002@18:09:02.
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