person
Heraclitus of Ephesus
Heraclitus
also: Heraclitus
Pre-Socratic philosopher (c. 540-480 BC) of flux and the logos. Cicero (De Fato 39) lists him among the older thinkers who held that all things come about by fate carrying the force of necessity.
Reading notes
- On the Ends of Good and Evil §2.15 Heraclitus
Heraclitus of Ephesus (c. 540-480 BC), the pre-Socratic philosopher of flux, nicknamed "the Obscure" (skoteinos) for his deliberately riddling style. Cicero cites him as one who is hard to understand by design rather than through the difficulty of his subject.
- Tusculan Disputations §5.104 There is a passage in Heraclitus the natural philosopher about Hermodorus
Heraclitus of Ephesus, the obscure pre-Socratic, denounced his fellow citizens for exiling his friend Hermodorus, their best man, on the principle that no one should excel. Cicero adduces it as proof that crowds hate preeminent virtue.