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M. Marcovich :Hol wer da, Spr?nge in die Tiefen Herak lits 691

D. Holwerda: Spr?nge in die Tiefen

Heraklits. Groningen: Bouma 1978.138 S. 50 hfl.

The author's intention was to apply tex

tual criticism to some Heraclitean fragments: ?Was ich hier vorlege ist eine

Reihe von Einzeluntersuchungen. Die

Folge ist ziemlich willk?rlich. Das

Schwergewicht liegt auf dem philologischen Aspekt der behandelten Texte

. . .

Das Gesamtbild des Philosophen Hera

klit neu zu entwerfen war nicht meine

Absicht? (Vorwort).The result of the book is, however, a

totally rewritten Heraclitus. After em

ploying heavy scholarly artillery, the

author was able to offer a bizarre text of

Heraclitus, more obscure than the extant

one. Through wild emendations and vio

lent alterations of the transmitted text,

the author has succeeded in leaving be

hind Heinrich Gomperz (Diels' nemesis)and others. Here are a few samples of the

new techne.

B 84ab (56ab M): MeTa?aXXov ?varca?

?Toa and KafiaTO? ?

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692M. Marcovich: Hol wer da, Spr?nge in die Tiefen Heraklits

Tr?vTa elvai, for in his commentary he in

terprets ev as &eo; Sixaio? or SiQ^toupyo?,whom Noetus (according to Hippolytus)identified (elvat) with 7i?vTa, to 7t5cv, xxiaic,or xoapio? (cf. M. M. in Texte und Un

tersuchungen 92, 1966, 255-264). To leave

apart Philo's allusion to B 50, 'HpaxXetTe?ou S6?,r?q ?Ta?po? . . . ?v t? tcolv . . .

elaaycov {Leg. aile g. III. 7).B 18 (u M) : 'E?v [ir? eXicTjTat. ?v?X7ua

Tov, o?x s?eupTjasi, ?ve?epeuv7]Tov e?v xal

?iuopov. On the ground of the fact that theearliest extant examples of an dcvex

compoundare from ca. 425 B. C., the

author believes that ave?epe?vrjTov cannot

go back to Heraclitus (1-4). He prefersto engage in heavy surgery instead while

reading: . . . o?x e?eup-yjcrei ?v e^epeuvyjT?v[e?v] xal a7Topov. ?man soll also auch das

Unzug?ngliche durchsuchen? (2). Per

?spera ad atra: (1) Future tense with ?vis outside Homer a rara avis (K?hner

Gerth I, 209). (2) The position of ?v isunusual (one would expect: o?x ?v ??eu

pyjaei), and cannot be explained by a

chiastic structure (?v balancing ??v).(3) The asyndeton is not welcome (?mansoil also . . .?). (4) The adverbial adjective ??epeuvY)TOv is not likely for Heraclitus' style: he uses /pv) (5 times), Set or

??i?v ?