Book 9
Chapter 1. HERACLITUS
1.1
Heraclitus, son of Bloson or, according to some, of Heracon, was a native of Ephesus. He flourished in the 69th Olympiad.504-500 b.c. He was lofty-minded beyond all other men,The biographers used by our author laid evident stress on this characteristic of the Ephesian, for §§ 1-3 (excepting two fragments cited in § 2) dwell on this single theme. As to the criticism of Pythagoras cf. Clem. Alex. Strom. i. 129 s.f., who, dealing with chronology, says that Heraclitus was later than Pythagoras, for Pythagoras is mentioned by him. and over-weening, as is clear from his book in which he says: Much learning does not teach understanding; else would it have taught Hesiod and Pythagoras, or, again, Xenophanes and Hecataeus.Fr. 40 D., 16 B. For this one thing is wisdom, to understand thought, as that which guides all the world everywhere.Fr. 41 D., 19 B. And he used to say that Homer deserved to be chased out of the lists and beaten with rods, and Archilochus likewise.Fr. 42 D., 119 B.
