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{GA 15: 71} FINK: But then τέρματα would no longer have the sense of boundaries that form morning and evening. In such a view, morning and evening become almost a determination of a region that seems to me questionable.
PARTICIPANT: The translation is oriented around the idea of Orient and Occident, which get separated by the communication line of the North Star with the daily culmination point of the sun's passage. I myself would not follow this interpretation either, since there was not yet the idea of Orient and Occident in Heraclitus' time. Rather, this idea can be assigned only from Herodotus on.
FINK: The Kranz interpretation does away with the boundary character of morning and evening. If one speaks of the one line between the North Star and the daily culmination point of the sun's passage, then also the plural, τέρματα, is no longer quite understandable. Although the explication given by Kranz is a possible answer to the difficulty that Fr. 120 presents, still it seems to me as if the lectio difficilior [more difficult rendition] is thereby precluded.
We have brought to mind the ambiguity of μέτρα of Ἥλιος in reference to Frs. 94 and 120. That has been only an attempt. We must now take into consideration the other sun fragments as well as the fragments concerning day and night.
HEIDEGGER: In talking through the three meanings of the μέτρα of Ἥλιος, you wanted to concentrate on the third meaning that you indicated at the beginning of the discussion of Fr. 120. In Fr. 94, this third meaning is given by the second sentence which is started by εἰ δὲ μή [otherwise], and in which Dike and the Erinyes are mentioned.
FINK: Perhaps Ἥλιος, who apportions everything, is himself confined by another power. The jurisdiction that finds him out {GA 15: 72} in a case of overstepping and brings him to account is Dike with her helpers. Dike is the diety of the just, the diety who watches the boundary between the domain of the sun's brightness and of what is found therein, and the domain of the nightly abyss that is denied to us. The guardians of this houndary are the helpmates of Dike. They watch out that Ἥλιος does not overstep his own domain of power and attempt to break into the dark abyss.
HEIDEGGER: On this third possible meaning of μέτρα you point to Fr. 120 as support.
FINK: If we now go back to the phenomena, we find the strange fact that daylight runs out in boundlessness. We have no boundary to daylight. If we speak of the vault of heaven, we do not mean thereby a dome which closes off; rather we mean the sun's domain of daylight which runs out in endless openness. We also know, however, the phenomenon of locking up of the open heavens, the heaven clouded over. But there is still one other boundary of the light domain, and that is the soil on which