1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 49a 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 67a 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82-83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 101a 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110-111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 Fragment 1 (2) Though this Word is true evermore, yet men are as unable to understand it when they hear it for the first time as before they have heard it at all. For, though all things come to pass in accordance with this Word, men seem as if they had no experience of them, when they make trial of words and deeds such as I set forth, dividing each thing according to its kind and showing how it truly is. But other men know not what they are doing when awake, even as they forget what they do in sleep. R. P. 32. Fragment 2 (92) So we must follow the common, yet though my Word is common, the many live as if they had a wisdom of their own. R. P. 44. Fragment 3 (The sun is the width of a human foot.) Fragment 4 (51a) Oxen are happy when they find bitter vetches to eat. R. P. 48 Fragment 5 (129, 130) They vainly purify themselves by defiling themselves with blood, just as if one who had stepped into the mud were to wash his feet in mud. Any man who marked him doing thus, would deem him mad. R. P. 49 a. (126) And they pray to these images, as if one were to talk with a man's house, knowing not what gods or heroes are. R. P. 49 a. Fragment 6 (32) The sun is new every day. Fragment 7 (37) If all things were turned to smoke, the nostrils would distinguish them. Fragment 8 (46) It is the opposite which is good for us. Fragment 9 (51) Asses would rather have straw than gold. R. P. 37 a. Fragment 10 (59) Couples are things whole and things not whole, what is drawn together and what is drawn asunder, the harmonious and the discordant. The one is made up of all things, and all things issue from the one. Fragment 11 (55) Every beast is driven to pasture with blows. Fragment 12 (41, 42) You cannot step twice into the same rivers; for fresh waters are ever flowing in upon you. R. P. 33. Fragment 13 (54) . . . to delight in the mire. Fragment 14 (124) Night-walkers, Magians, Bakchoi, Lenai, and the initiated . . . (125) The mysteries practised among men are unholy mysteries. R. P. 48. Fragment 15 (127) For if it were not to Dionysos that they made a procession and sang the shameful phallic hymn, they would be acting most shamelessly. But Hades is the same as Dionysos in whose honour they go mad and rave. R. P. 49. Fragment 16 (27) How can one hide from that which never sets?