For, having in his youth first become familiar with Cratylus and with the Heraclitean doctrines (that all sensible things are ever in a state of flux and there is no knowledge about them), these views he held even in later years.
Izan ere, gaztetatik eta lehenengoz ohituta Kratilorekin eta iritzi heraklitoarrekin-sentsazio guztiak etengabeko isurketan daudela eta hauei buruzko zientziarik ez dagoela, hain zuzen ere-, geroago ere horrela eutsi zion iritzi honi.