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Heraclitus

Heraclitus: Diels B fragments Carrier fragment 22B65

Carrier fragment 66 of 145

Canonical reference 22B65

Ancient Greek

Hermann Diels, editor · ogl-diels-1922

καλεῖ δὲ αὐτὸ χρησμοσύνην καὶ κόρον · χρημοσύνη δὲ ἐστιν ἡ διακόσμησις κατ’ αὐτόν, ἡ δὲ ἐκπύρωσις κόρος.

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

He calls it need and satiety. Need, according to him, is the ordering of the cosmos, while conflagration is satiety.

French AI-generated translation, non-official

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

Il l’appelle « besoin » et « satiété » ; selon lui, le besoin est l’ordonnancement du monde, et la conflagration est la satiété.

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