Help locating original Heraclitus quote

by eclecticeccentric

I'm currently reading "A Vision" by W. B. Yeats and he quotes Heraclitus, among other Greek philosophers, frequently throughout the text. However, there's one quote I really love and I wondered where I could find it in Heraclitus' work so that I could have some context, or at least be able to find it in it's original Greek. The quote is "Here the thought of Heraclitus dominates all: 'Dying each other's life, living each other's death'."

rosemary85

The original is quoted by the anti-pope Hippolytus in his Refutation of All Heresies 9.10, and appears as fragment B 62 in the standard Diels & Kranz edition:

ἀθάνατοι θνητοί, θνητοὶ ἀθάνατοι, ζῶντες τὸν ἐκείνων θάνατον, τὸν δὲ ἐκείνων βίον τεθνεῶτες.

The full quotation means, literally,

Immortals are mortal, mortals immortal: living the others' death, dying the others' life.

or possibly (grammatically more sound, but seems to make even less sense):

Mortals are immortal, immortals mortal: living the others' death, dying the others' life.