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The earliest surviving Stoic work, the Hymn to Zeus of Cleanthes, though not explicitly referencing Heraclitus, adopts what appears to be the Heraclitean logos modified.

Zeus rules the universe with law ( nomos ) wielding on its behalf the " forked servant ", the " fire " of the " ever-living lightning.

" So far nothing has been said that differs from the Zeus of Homer.

But then, says Cleanthes, Zeus uses the fire to " straighten out the common logos " that travels about ( phoitan, " to frequent ") mixing with the greater and lesser lights ( heavenly bodies ).

This is Heraclitus ' logos, but now it is confused with the " common nomos ", which Zeus uses to " make the wrong ( perissa, left or odd ) right ( artia, right or even )" and " order ( kosmein ) the disordered ( akosma ).