We learn from Diog. ix. 10 (quoted below, p. 164) that Herakleitos
explained why the sun was warmer and brighter than the moon, and this
is doubtless a fragment of that passage. I now think the words ἕνεκα
τῶν ἄλλων ἄστρων are from Herakleitos. So Diels.
Footnote 344:
Hesiod said Day was the child of Night (_Theog._ 124).
Footnote 345:
Reading ὅκωσπερ πῦρ for ὅκωσπερ with Diels.
Footnote 346:
_Il._ xviii. 107. I add the words οἰχήσεσθαι γὰρ πάντα from Simpl. _in
Cat._ (88 b 30 schol. Br.). They seem to me at least to represent
something that was in the original.
Footnote 347:
I cannot think it likely that Herakleitos said both παλίντονος and
παλίντροπος ἁρμονίη, and I prefer Plutarch’s παλίντονος (R. P. 34 b)
to the παλίντροπος of Hippolytos. Diels thinks that the polemic of
Parmenides decides the question in favour of παλίντροπος; but see
below, p. 184, _n._ 415, and Chap. IV. p. 198, _n._ 438.
Footnote 348:
This, I now think, is the medical rule αἱ ἰατρεῖαι διὰ τῶν ἐναντίων,
_e.g._ βοηθεῖν τῷ θερμῷ ἐπὶ τὸ ψυχρόν (Stewart on Arist. _Eth._ 1104 b
16).
Footnote 349:
Fr. 51_a_ was recovered by Bywater from Albertus Magnus. See _Journ.
Phil._ ix. p. 230.
Footnote 350:
On fr. 55 see Diels in _Berl. Sitzb._ 1901, p. 188.
Footnote 351:
I now read ἐπαιτέονται with Bernays and Diels.
Footnote 352:
On fr. 59 see Diels in _Berl. Sitzb._ 1901, p. 188. The reading
συνάψιες seems to be well attested and gives an excellent sense. It is
not, however, correct to say that the optative could not be used in an
imperative sense.
Footnote 353:
By “these things,” he probably meant all kinds of injustice.
Footnote 354:
Diels supposes that fr. 64 went on ὁκόσα δὲ τεθνηκότες ζωή. “Life,
Sleep, Death is the threefold ladder in psychology, as in physics
Fire, Water, Earth.”
Footnote 355:
I think now with Diels that the words οὕτω βαθὺν λόγον ἔχει are
probably genuine. They present no difficulty if we remember that λόγος
means “measurement,” as in fr. 23.
Footnote 356:
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