BOOK IX Chapter 1. HERACLITUS Heraclitus, son of Bloson or. according to some, of Heracon. Mas a native of Ephesus. He flourished in the 69th Olympiad. He Mas lofty-minded beyond all other men. 5 and over-weening, as is clear from his book in which he says : " Much learning does not teach understanding ; else Mould it have taught Hesiod and Pythagoras, or, again, Xenophanes and Hecataeus." c For "this one thing is wisdom, to understand thought, as that which guides all the world everywhere." d And he used to say that " Homer deserved to be chased out of the lists and beaten with rods, and Archilochus likeM'ise." e Again he Mould say : " There is more need to extinguish insolence than an outbreak of fire," f and " The people must fight for the laM- as for citywalls." He attacks the Ephesians, too, for banishing his friend Hermodorus : he says : "The Ephesians