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significance. Following him and having regard to Antipho Soph. fr. 1 

 (\ - 591, IS, 7J'WM?7 Tti'wo'Ket, and \'- 0^)2, 4, yuuiidrj i^ojaac) one might 

 incline to propose to emend yvo^fxrjuand reatl yuojuj] tmaTaadaL in Hera- 

 clitus. I shonld regard that, however, as an error; for I hold that 

 yvuitxr}v is an accusative of the inner object. In other words, eiriaTa- 

 adai yi'oju-qv is a periphrasis for yLvooaKeiv. In the time of Heraditus 

 eTriffTaadaL had not yet accjuired the technical sense which it later 

 I)ore in philosophical prose: in fr. 57, tovtou eiricrTavTai TrXeicrra eldei'aL, 

 it means to "fancy"; in fr. 19, dKoOcrat ovk tTnaTaixevoi ovb' Hirelp, to 

 "be skillful." The latter sense is common from Homer onward, the 

 former in Herodotus. It is not surprising, therefore, that Heraditus 

 should wish to reinforce it with a cognate substantive. A similar turn 

 recurs in Ion of Chios, fr. 4 (V- 222, 28 sq.), 



OJS 6 fih -qvopiji T€ KeKaafxevos r}8e Kal ai8o2 



Kal (jidliJievos ^vxfi rtpivvov exet ^Iotov, 

 eiivep Ilvday6pr]s erviJLWS 6 (Xocf)ds wepi iravTOiv 

 apdpccTTOoi' yuoifjLas ySee Ka^efxadeu. 



Here Diels, whose emendation, f/See for et5e I heartily approve, 

 renders yv<!>ip.as fi8te Ka^epiadtv with " Einsichten erworben und erforscht 

 hat." I believe we have a sort of hysteron proteron, and that Ion 

 (for, herein differing from Diels, I believe the verses are his) meant 

 " if Pythagoras was well informed and really knew whereof he spoke." 

 This interpretation of Ion's phrase is proved correct beyond a doubt 

 by Theognis, 59, 



dXXTyXoi's 5' OLiraToJaLv eir' aWr]\oi.aL yeXojvres, 

 ovre KaKoov ypoi/ias eldoTes out' ayadoov. 



The couplet was reproduced witli slight modifications by an unintel- 

 ligent imitator, Theognis 1113, 



aWriXovs 8' aTraTojVTes evr' aWr]\oLaL yeXcbaiv, 

 ovt' ayadCov jj.vi]jxriv dbbres ovre KaKwv. 



Here we must without doubt adopt Hecker's emendation yvccju-qv for 

 fjLvrjfxrjv. The imitator did not perceive the true significance of the 

 original, which sought to hold, up to scorn the blissful Edenic ignor- 

 ance of good and evil characteristic of the new-made lords of Megara, 

 who but recently, dad in goat-skins, lived like pasturing deer in the 

 wilds without the city walls, but now in the city light-heartedly hood- 

 wink one another. Clearly yu6)p.as ddeuai is a mere peri})hrasis for 

 ei8kpaL. A similar reinforcement of eiokvai occurs in the LXX. account 



