716 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY. 



unaccountable way he appears to have overlooked my note in Class. 

 Philol. 5. p. 247, for he renders the text thus: "Sie beten zu den Got- 

 terbildern, die nicht horen, als ob sie Gehor hatten, die nichts zuriick- 

 geben, wie sie ja auch nichts fordern konnten," The saying is a close 

 parallel to fr. 127, likewise spurious, in that it charges men with in- 

 consistency in their dealings with the gods. Hence ovk aTodLdovaiv 

 (= airohLboaaLv; not the partic. I) answers to (vxovTaL as cbairep ovk airaL- 

 Toiev answers to coairep aKovoLev, and the meaning, as I said in my 

 former note, is : " They make vou's to the images of the gods, that hear 

 not, as if they heard; they pay not their voivs, as if they (the gods) 

 required it not." Everyone can supply the necessary classical examples 

 for evxovraL, aTro8i,8ovaLv, and awaLTolev. I will quote one from the 

 LXX., Deuter. 23. 21, eap 8e evxv ^VXW Kvpico rcS deco aov, ov xpovtets 

 cnrodovpaL avTr]v, otl eK^r]Tcoi> eK^rjTrjaeL Kvpios 6 ^eos aov, nal earai ev aol 

 afxapria. 



[Hippocrates.] 



V^ 81, 36 — 82, 16. For this passage, see my Antecedents of Greek 

 Corpuscular Theories, Harvard Studies in Class. Philol., 22 (1911), 

 p. 148 sq. It is to this article, and not to " Class. Philol. 22. 

 158," that Diels should have referred V^ 106, 16, note. 



c. 13. Epicharmus. 



V2 91, 23. Fr. 4. 6, 



TO 8e uo4>ov a (pvcns t68' ol8ei> cos exet 

 fjLOva • 7reirai8€VTaL yap avravras viro. 



Diels renders, "Doch wie sich's mit dieser Weisheit verhalt, das 

 weiss die Natur allein. Denn sie hat's ganz von selbst gelernt." 

 It is, perhaps, a matter of no great consequence, but I believe his 

 translation rests on a misconception of -6 (jo4>6v roSe and cos ex^t. As 

 to the former, it has little in common with (to) ao<p6v of Heraclitus, 

 but, like the familiar phrase ov8ev ttolklKov ov8e ao4)6v, denotes some- 

 thing recondite or cunningly devised. In regard to cos exet, I remarked 

 above, in my note on Heraclitus, fr. 1, that it here refers to the process 

 of becoming, "how it comes about." The words of the fragment 

 mean, "Nature alone knows the secret of this cunning device, or 

 the way in which this mysterious result is brought about." This use 

 of cos exei and related phrases appears to have escaped many scholars. 

 Possibly it baffled the copyists also in certain instances. Thus Xen. 

 Mem. 1. 1. 11, ovSe yap irepi ttjs tojv TravTU)v (pvaecos, fjirep tuv aWcov 



