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) τόν τε Ὅμηρον ἔφασκεν ἄξιον ἐκ τῶν ἀγώνων ἐκβάλλεσθαι καὶ ῥαπίζεσθαι καὶ Ἀρχίλοχον ὁμοίως
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01 Source text 02 Transliteration 03 Morphology 04 Lexeme 05 Grammar 06 Semantic range 07 Immediate context 08 Other occurrences 09 Textual variants 10 Translations 11 Historical setting 12 Literary structure 13 Scholarly interpretations 14 Later reception 15 Numerical layer 16 Constellation 17 Next questions