The first philosophers of Greece : $b An edition and translation of the remaining fragments of the pre-Sokratic philosophers, together with a translation of the more important accounts of their opinions contained in the early epitomes of their worksFairbanks, Arthur
Philosophy
The first philosophers of Greece : $b An edition and translation of the remaining fragments of the pre-Sokratic philosophers, together with a translation of the more important accounts of their opinions contained in the early epitomes of their works
Fairbanks, Arthur
Philosophy, Ancient
Cicero quotes Herakleitos 113 in Greek without the author’s name, and
translates 114 carefully; Bywater, p. x, suggests that he found the
latter in somebody’s _de exilio commentatio_. Returning to the Stoic
school, we find in Seneca an accurate translation of Herakleitos 77 and
81, so that we are inclined to trust his version of 120. What seems to
be Herakleitos 113, however, is assigned to Demokritos in an expanded
form. The epistles attributed to Herakleitos belong to approximately
this period, and are interesting only as additional evidence to the
study of Herakleitos by Stoic philosophers. Stobaeos quotes several
Herakleitean phrases from Musonius. Fr. 20 and 69 are given only in
substance, a phrase from 114 is worked into the context, and 75 is quoted
in a later form. Fr. 75 as well as 27 and 67 is found in the second and
third books of Clement’s _Paedagogos_, books which draw largely from
Musonius. The use of Herakleitean material by Lucian, especially in his
_Vitarum auctio_, ch. xiv., is doubtless based on a Stoic source, as is
indicated by the work ἐκπύρωσις. We may conclude this survey of Stoic
writers with Marcus Aurelius. In his writings we find bare allusion to
Herakleitos 2, 5, 20, 73, and perhaps to 97; a word or two of 34, 84, and
98 are worked into the text; while 25, 69, 90, 93, 94 are half quoted
in the text. Apparently all are allusions to, or abbreviated citations
of, sentences with which the reader was supposed to be familiar. It is
wholly improbable that citations made in this manner were drawn from
the book itself; rather they seem to point to a collection of ‘sayings’
of Herakleitos which must have been quite generally known. Unless such
a collection is assumed, they must be regarded as phrases which were
familiar to all because they were so often quoted. The former hypothesis
seems to me the more tenable.
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