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I am grateful to Patrick Miller, Erin Pellarin, and Eleanor Rutledge for their comments on an earlier version of this paper.

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Lesher, J. Hopkins’ Creative Use of Heraclitean Materials. Int class trad 18, 262–269 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12138-011-0251-6

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