Brewer's: Flowing Philosophers

The followers of Heraclitos, referred to by Plato as tous reontas (Theæ'tetus, 181 A). Heraclitos denied the permanency of everything in nature except change. Tennyson has a poem entitled Oi reontes.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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