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Heraclitus

Heraclitus: Diels B fragments Carrier fragment 22B21

Carrier fragment 21 of 145

Canonical reference 22B21

Ancient Greek

Hermann Diels, editor · ogl-diels-1922

οὐχὶ καὶ Ἡ. θάνατον τὴν γένεσιν καλεῖ . . . ἐν οἶς φησι· θάνατός ἐστιν ὁκόσα ἐγερθέντες ὁρέομεν, ὁκόσα δὲ εὕδοντες ὕπνος.

English AI-generated translation, non-official

Codex gpt-5.6-sol · Non-official working translation · 2026-09-14

Does not H. also call coming into being death . . . in the words: Death is all that we see while awake, and all that we see while asleep is sleep.

French AI-generated translation, non-official

Codex gpt-5.6-sol · Non-official working translation · 2026-09-14

H. n’appelle-t-il pas lui aussi la naissance une mort... lorsqu’il dit : « Mort est tout ce que, réveillés, nous voyons ; tout ce que nous voyons en dormant est sommeil. »

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