EXEGESIS

Heraclitus, DK B42·Ancient Greek

Homer out of the contests

The Greek is a sentence about Homer and Archilochus. Forty-two is Diels-Kranz’s number for the fragment, not a word in it. The instrument exists to keep that distinction visible.

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DK 22 B42 (Diogenes Laertius 9.1)