"Poor witnesses for people are eyes and ears if they possess barbarian souls."
— Heraklitus (fl. 504-1 BCE)
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Date
c. 501 B.C.
Metaphor
"Poor witnesses for people are eyes and ears if they possess barbarian souls."
Metaphor in Context
κακοὶ μάρτυρες ἀνθρώποισιν ὀφθαλμοὶ καὶ ὦτα βαρβάρους ψυχὰς ἐχόντων
[Poor witnesses for people are eyes and ears if they possess barbarian souls.]
(DK B107)
[Poor witnesses for people are eyes and ears if they possess barbarian souls.]
(DK B107)
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Provenance
Browsing Randy Hoyt's website, from which the unicode Greek is drawn.
Citation
Heraclitus, Fragments Trans T. M. Robinson (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1987).
The ancient Greek was encoded by Randy Hoyt, working from Perseus Digital Library and Hermann Diels' Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, ed. Walther Kranz (Berlin, 1951). <Link to www.heraclitusfragments.com>
The ancient Greek was encoded by Randy Hoyt, working from Perseus Digital Library and Hermann Diels' Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, ed. Walther Kranz (Berlin, 1951). <Link to www.heraclitusfragments.com>
Date of Entry
05/17/2011
