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Early Greek philosophy

Note 343 — Chapter III · HERAKLEITOS OF EPHESOS

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We learn from Diog. ix. 10 (quoted below, p. 164) that Herakleitos explained why the sun was warmer and brighter than the moon, and this is doubtless a fragment of that passage. I now think the words ἕνεκα τῶν ἄλλων ἄστρων are from Herakleitos. So Diels.

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