HEIDEL. — ON FRAGMENTS OF THE PUE-SOCRATICS. 715 



tional observations to siippleni(>nt my former statement, whieh exi- 

 gencies of space then compelled me to omit. For the meaning of 

 ovpos, "wind," I wouhl refer to Schmidt's Sijnoiiyniil:. See also 

 l^onitz, Index AristotcUcus, s. v. iipKTos. It M'as common to say 

 Kal TTpos apKTOf Kal wpos voTov. The pin'ases employed hy Herodotus 

 in speaking of the cardinal points are especially interesting; I have 

 made a c()mj)lete list of them, and they seem to me to he decisive. 

 I will refer, however, to but a few by way of illustration: 1. 14S, 

 irpbs apKTOV rtrpapLnkvos . . . Trpos ^ecfivpou ave/jiou ; 2. 8, 4>epov air' apKTOv 

 TTpos iJLeaeiJL^pirjs re Kal votov ; 3. 102, Trpos apKTOV re Kal (Sopeov auefxov. 

 Cp. Hesiod, Theog. 378-82. 



Though I do not accept the suggestion of Diels that the oupos Alos 

 is Mt. Olympus, I will refer to a passage which might possibly be 

 used to support it, to wit, Hippocr. Ilept elSSofxado^u, 18 (9. 462 L.), 

 Dcfiiiitio autem superiorum partium ct iufcriorum corporis umbilicus. 

 It would be interesting to know the Greek text: perhaps Helmreich 

 or some other ransacker of medical manuscripts may yet recover 

 it! It occurs in a part of the treatise much discussed of late; see 

 Roscher, Lhcr Alter, Ursprung und Bedcutung der kippolcr. Schrift 

 von der Siebcnzahl, p. 37, n. 67, who of course, in relating this to his 

 " Weltkarte," refers to the o^u^aXos yrjs or da\aTTris, and believes that 

 the writer had in mind (not Delphi, but) Delos or Teos. Mt. Olympus 

 might well serve as a landmark to divide the "upper" or northern 

 parts of the earth from the "lower" or southern; but it does not 

 seem so suitable for a zero meridian. I doubt, moreover, whether Hera- 

 clitus had any "Greenwich" in mind: what he seems to have meant 

 is merely this, that "east" and "west" are relative terms and are 

 delimited by a nortli and south line drawm through any point that 

 may be in question. Various special meridians, useful to the geog- 

 rapher and mariner, were recognized at a comparatively early date, 

 as may be seen from Herodotus; but a zero meridian, so far as I 

 know, was not thought of before the time of the Alexandrian geogra- 

 phers. For the suggestion of a possible verse original for the fragment, 

 see above on fr. 100. This would readily account for the use of o5pos 

 in the sense of wind. 



V'^ 80, 10. Fr. 12S, daLfxouoiP ay a\iJ.aaLV evxovTatoiiK cLKoiiovaLv, ojcxirep 

 CLKOvoLev, ovK aTTodidovcnv, ibairep ovk dTratToTev. 



In regard to the text of this spurious fragment I agree with Diels, 

 except that I would set a colon after aKovoteu; from his interpreta- 

 tion I dissent, because it seems to me obviously at fault. In some 



