User:FranksValli/Fragment 42

Fragment 42 is a quote by Heraclitus regarding his dislike for the ancient poets, especially Homer and Archilochos. This is a fragment, like all of the other material we have of Heraclitus, and is preserved today only because Diogenes Laertius quoted it in his Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (Book 9, Section 1, Paragraph 2) English: Greek:.