Κοινόκοσμος καὶ Κωματόκοσμοι

• ὁ Ἡράκλειτός φησι τοῖς ἐγρηγορόσιν ἕνα καὶ κοινὸν κόσμον εἶναι τῶν δὲ κοιμωμένων ἕκαστον εἰς ἴδιον ἀποστρέφεσθαι. — Σέξτος Ἐμπειρικός, Πρὸς μαθηματικούς

• • Heraclitus said that for the waking is one common world, but the sleeping turn aside each into a world of his own. — Sextus Empiricus, fl. 150 A.D., Adversus Mathematicos / Against the Mathematicians (or: Against the Professors), VII. 129


Post-Performative Post-Scriptum

Κοινόκοσμος, Koinokosmos, “common-world”, “shared cosmos” ← κοινός, koinós, “common”, “shared” + κόσμος, kosmos, “world”, “order”, “universe”; καὶ, kai, “and”; Κωματόκοσμοι, Kōmatokosmoi, “sleep-worlds” ← Greek κῶμα, kôma, “deep sleep” + κόσμος, kosmos