Plato, Cratylus, section 402a

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[402a]

Socrates
It sounds absurd, but I think there is some probability in it.

Hermogenes
What is this probability?

Socrates
I seem to have a vision of Heracleitus saying some ancient words of wisdom as old as the reign of Cronus and Rhea, which Homer said too.

Hermogenes
What do you mean by that?

Socrates
Heracleitus says, you know, that all things move and nothing remains still, and he likens the universe to the current of a river, saying that you cannot step twice into the same stream.

Hermogenes
True.

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 12 translated by Harold N. Fowler. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921.

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Cross-references to this page (3):
- William Watson Goodwin, Syntax of the Moods and Tenses of the Greek Verb, Chapter IV
- Basil L. Gildersleeve, Syntax of Classical Greek, Tenses
- Basil L. Gildersleeve, Syntax of Classical Greek, Concord
Cross-references in notes to this page (1):
- Aristotle, Metaphysics, Aristot. Met. 1.987a
Cross-references in general dictionaries to this page (4):
- LSJ, πάνυ^
- LSJ, πι^θα^ν-ότης
- LSJ, ῥοή
- LSJ, χωρ-έω