I frammenti dell'opera di Eraclito di Efeso sulla natura; tradotti da…

I. — It is wise for those who hear, not me, but the universal Reason, to confess that all things are one.1 II. — To this universal Reason which I unfold, although it always exists, men make themselves in sensible, both before they have heard it and when they have heard it for the first time. For notwith standing that all things happen according to this Reason, men act as though they had never had any experience in regard to it when they attempt such words and works as I am now relating, describing each thing according to its nature and explaining how it is ordered. And some men are as ignorant of what SOURCES. — I. — Hippolytus, Ref. haer. ix. 9. Context : — Heraclitus says that all things are one, divided undivided, created uncreated, mortal immortal, reason eternity, father son, God justice. "It is wise for those who hear, not me, but the universal Reason, to con fess that all things are one." And since all do not comprehend this or acknowledge it, he reproves them somewhat as follows : "They do not understand how that which separates unites with itself ; it is a harmony of oppositions like that of the bow and of the lyre" (=frag. 45). Compare Philo, Leg. alleg. iii. 3, p. 88. Context, see frag. 24. II.— Hippolytus, Ref. haer. ix. 9. Context:— And that Reason always exists, being all and permeating all, he (Heraclitus) says in this manner : "To this universal," etc. Aristotle, Rhet. iii. 5, p. 1407, b. 14. Context: — For it is very hard to punctuate Heraclitus' writings on account of its not being clear whether the words refer to those which precede or to those which follow. For instance, in the beginning of his work, where he says, "To Reason existing always men make themselves insensible." For here it is ambiguous to what "always" refers. Sextus Empir. adv. Math. vii. 132.— Clement of Alex. Stromata, v. 14, p. 716.— Amelius from Euseb. Praep. Evang. xi. 19, p. 540.— Compare Philo, Quis. rer. div. haer. 43, p. 505.…