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Heraclitus

Heraclitus: Diels B fragments Carrier fragment 22B48

Carrier fragment 48 of 145

Canonical reference 22B48

Ancient Greek

Hermann Diels, editor · ogl-diels-1922

βίος: τῶι οὖν τόξωι ὄνομα βίος, ἔργον δὲ θάνατος.

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

Life: the bow's name, then, is life, but its work is death.

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

Vie : l’arc a donc pour nom « vie », mais son œuvre est la mort.

Heraclitus: Diels B fragments Carrier fragment 22B48

Ancient Greek

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