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in the early stages of prose when verse was still the prevailing medium 

 of artistic expression. This is perhaps the most probable explanation 

 of the hexameter ending of fr. 5, Oeovs ov8' ripuas oirLves elai, which I 

 noted long ago and find referred to Homeric influence by Norden, 

 Agnostos Theos, p. 88, n. 1. Dactylic movement, due to epic models, 

 is much more easily thus accounted for than iambic or trochaic, such 

 as have been noted above in fragments 78 and 80. Of the latter sort 

 there is perhaps another example in fr. 120, quoted by Strabo, ijovs 

 /cat ecnrepas rep/JLara rj apKTOs Kal avrlov rrjs apKTOv ovpos aWpiov Atos. 

 The general trochaic or iambic rhythm is at once apparent, and the 

 close at least is faultless and strikingly suggestive of a trochaic verse. 

 See infra, p. 714 sq. One may recast it into trochaics quite as easily 

 as Wilamowitz did the second fragment of Scythinus, — 



rjovs [possibly ew 8e] x^crTrepas 

 rkpiiar' apKTOs KavrV ixpKTOv ovpos aWpiov Alos. 



V 77, 11. Fr. 108, OKoaoiv \6yovs i]Kovcra, ovSels a4>LKveLTaL ks tovto, 

 &GT€ yLvwcTKeLV OTL ao(f)6v k<XTL TravTCJV Kexo:piafJ.evou. 



This fragment has been much discussed; cp. Schuster, pp. 42, 44; 

 Zeller, I. 629, n. 1. Gomperz proposed to bracket on ao4>6v kt\. as an 

 interpolation. All those who retain the words regard them as an 

 object clause, whatever interpretation they may put upon it. Diels 

 identifies (to) ao(t)6v with God, and understands the fragment as de- 

 claring the divine transcendence. This view has naturally provoked 

 vigorous protests; for it is incompatible with all that we otherwise 

 know of the thought of Heraclitus. I think Xoyovs is here used as 

 Heraclitus uses \6yos of his own philosophic message or gospel: it 

 refers to the Weltanschauungen of the great teachers and philoso- 

 phers; for ^Kovaa does not necessarily refer to actual hearing of the 

 person who sets forth his views, but includes the reading (by himself 

 or l)y a slave) of written records. The pregnant force of yLvcoaKetv was 

 sufficiently explained above in the discussion of fr. 41. Heraclitus, 

 then, says: "Of all those whose message regarding the nature of things 

 it has been my fortune to learn about, not one has attained to the jJoint 

 of true knowledge." So much seems to be clear frofn a survey of the 

 conception of knowledge which he is continually proclaiming. But, 

 once we seize the import of his use of yLpdoaKetv, it is equally clear that 

 OTL is not "that"; it is causal, and the obvious conclusion to his 

 sentence follows: "for wisdom is far removed from all" ("men" or 

 "of them"). One may illustrate this use of KexupLcrfxevov by a pas- 



