Fragment 91

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[ποταμῷ γὰρ οὐκ ἔστιν εμβῆναι δὶς τῷ αὐτῷ καθ' Ἡράκλειτον οὐδὲ θνητῆς οὐσίας δὶς ἅψασθαι κατὰ ἕξιν <τῆς αὐτῆς>· ἀλλ' ὀξύτητι καὶ τάχει μεταβολῆς] σκίδνησι καὶ πάλιν συνάγει [(μᾶλλον δὲ οὐδὲ πάλιν οὐδ' ὕστερον, ἀλλ' ἅμα)] συνίσταται καὶ ἀπολείπει καὶ πρόσεισι καὶ ἄπεισι

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[For, according to Heraclitus, it is not possible to step twice into the same river, nor is it possible to touch a mortal substance twice in so far as its state is concerned. But, thanks to the swiftness and speed of change,] it scatters and brings together again, [(or, rather, it brings together and lets go neither again nor later, but simultaneously)] it forms and dissolves, and it approaches and departs (Robinson).

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See commentary for fragment 12.

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