Fragment 37


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Swine wash in the mire, and barnyard fowls in dust.

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This fragment has been preserved only in Latin. Most scholars treat it as a paraphrase and not a direct quote. The thought definitely seems Heraclitean, and I see no reason to reject it. Compare this with fragment 13.

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