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Headword: *(hra/kleitos
Adler number: eta,471
Translated headword: Herakleitos, Heraclitus
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Proper name.[1]
Heraclitus said that he valued the body very little and considered it more to be discarded than excrement. [He said that] he fulfilled its needs as simply as possible as long as he was under the god's orders to use his body as a tool.[2]
Greek Original:
*(hra/kleitos: o)/noma ku/rion. o(/ti *(hra/kleitos e)/fh, o)ligwrei=n pa/nth tou= sw/matos kai\ nomi/zein au)to\ kopri/wn e)kblhto/teron: e)k tou= r(a/|stou de\ au)tw=| ta\s qerapei/as a)poplhrou=n, e(/ws a)\n o( qeo\s w(/sper o)rga/nw| tw=| sw/mati xrh=sqai e)pita/tth|.
Notes:
[1] That of -- principally -- the philosopher H. of Ephesus (fl. 500 BCE); cf. eta 472, and see generally OCD(4) s.v. 'Heraclitus(1)'.
[2] Julian, Oration 7, 226C.
Keywords: biography; ethics; imagery; philosophy; religion; rhetoric
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 7 March 2002@21:16:19.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (added notes; cosmetics) on 8 March 2002@03:11:26.
Catharine Roth (added keyword) on 10 October 2007@19:56:42.
David Whitehead (more keywords; tweaking) on 19 December 2012@04:22:45.
David Whitehead (updated a ref) on 3 August 2014@06:10:47.
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