Says Kahn: “Down to the time of Plutarch and Clement, if not later, the little book of Heraclitus was available in its original form to any reader who chose to seek it out.”
Diogenes says: “the book acquired such fame that it produced partisans of his philosophy who were called Heracliteans.”
As with other pre-Socratics, his writings only survive in fragments quoted by other authors.
Hope springs eternal that someday someone might find a complete copy of Heraclitus not quite lost in the ashes of time.
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