Fragment 76
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πυρὸς θάνατος ἀέρι γένεσις, καὶ ἀέρος θάνατος ὕδατι γένεσις
The death of fire is the birth of air, and the death of air is the birth of water.
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[ Hide commentary ]Three different sources quote this fragment, each a little differently. Diels included all three in his edition, and Bywater prefers Maximus of Tyre's version. I follow Kahn in asserting that only the one given by Plutarch could be a verbatim of Heraclitus (Kahn Excursus II, 153f).