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In the same way Epicharmus, fr. 64 (V- 100, 5 sq.), likewise spurious, 



el/xl veKpos' veKpos 5e Koirpos, yrj 6' 17 Kowpos eariv 

 el 8' ri yrj 6e6s ear', ov veKpos, dXXd deos, 



glances at Heraclitus, fr. 96, veKves yap Koirpicou eK^XrjTOTepoL, and also at 

 the anecdotes relative to the manner of his death, V^ 54, 29 sq., and 

 to the anecdote about the oven, where also there were gods (V- 58, 

 36 sq.). It seems altogether likely that the case of Heraclitus is in 

 this a close parallel to that of Pythagoras, that myth soon began to 

 weave legends about his name, and that forgeries sprang up which were 

 supported by other forgeries. For the relation of the late Pytha- 

 goreans to Heraclitus, see Norden, Agnostos Thcos, p. 345, n. 1. The 

 examples given above and to be discussed presently make it extremely 

 probable that some of these were written in verse and current as 

 adespota, becoming in time attached to various names, such as Epi- 

 charmus. Others went under the name of Heraclitus, and it is 

 probably to them that the Vita in Suidas refers (V^ 55^ 45)^ lypaxj/e 



TToXXd TOLTJTLKcbs. 



V 73, 23. Fr. 80, eldhat 8e XPV tov ToXefxov eovra ^vvbv, Kal biK-qv 

 eptv, Kal ytvoneva irai'Ta /car' epiv Kal xpeco/iej'a. 



This fragment has been discussed times innumerable, more particu- 

 larly with reference to the last word, which is conceded to be im- 

 possible. If the sentence be regarded as an authentic prose fragment 

 of Heraclitus, we probably cannot do better than accept Schuster's 

 conjecture, Karaxpemeva for xpecoAjei'a, and take it as complementary to 

 yivofxeva. Dials, howeA'er, has rightly refused to admit into his text 

 any of the numerous substitutes proposed for xp^^^l^tva. First of all 

 it should be noted that Kal yivoiieva waura Kar' 'ipiv does not look so 

 much like an utterance of Heraclitus as like an attempt to summarize 

 details; this impression is confirmed by fr. 8, Arist. Eth, Nic. 1155^ 4, 

 'HpaA-Xetros to clvtI^ovv avp.(i)epov Kal eK tojp bia^yepovTOiv KaWldTrjv apfio- 

 vlav Kal iravTa Kar' epiv yLveodac, which is itself quite obviously not a 

 verbatim quotation but a summary. Long ago I was struck by the 

 similarity in thought between Kal biK-qv epiv, Kal yivoixeva waura kut' 

 ipLv and Cleanthes, H. in lov. 30, 



66s be Kvpfjaai yvoj/xtjs, fi irlavvos av 8iKT]s p-era iravra KV^epvas, 



and in a letter to Professor Diels I proposed instead of xP^<^P^^va to 

 read xp^<^v fxera, after Eurip. Here. F. 20, 



