The dictum of Anaximander of Miletus [2]
ἐξ ὧν δὲ ἡ γένεσίς ἐστί τοῖς οὖσι καὶ τὴν φθορὰν εἰς ταῦτα γίνεσθαι κατὰ τὸ χρεών· διδόναι γὰρ αὐτὰ δίκην καὶ τίσιν ἀλλήλοις τῆς ἀδικίας κατὰ τὴν τοῦ χρόνου τάξιν.
From Simplicius (Commentary on the Physics) based on Theophrastus (Φυσικῶν δόξαι).3
In translation: “But whence things take their origin, thence also proceeds their passing away, according to necessity; for they pay one another penalty and retribution for their wickedness according to established time.” Diels.4
“Whence things have their origination, thence must they also perish, according to necessity; for they must pay retribution and be judged for their injustices, according to the order of time.” Nietzsche.5
3 {Simplicii in Aristotelis Physicorum libros quattuor priores commentaria. Edidit H. Diels. Berlin: Reimer, 1882. Phys. 1:2, 24. Cf. also Die Fragmente der Vorsakratiker. Griechisch und Deutsch von Hermann Diels . Vol. 1, 4th. ed. Berlin: Weidmann, 1922. Heidegger underlines the words τοῖς οὖσι. Diels has a comma after οὖσι.}
4 {This translation is not in Diels. The 4th edition of Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker reads: “But whence their birth is, thence also proceeds their dying, according to necessity. For they pay one another penalty and retribution for their wickedness according to the order of time.” Cf. also the afterword to Heidegger’s “Der Spruch des Anaximander,” GA78, 339ff.}
5 { Friedrich Nietzsche, Die Philosophie im tragischen Zeitalter der Griechen. In Nietzsche’s Werke: Gesamtausgabe in Großoktav , 19 vols. Nachgelassene Werke, vol. 10. Leipzig: Naumann, 1903, 26.}