ABSTRACT
I here consider ancient discussions of a peculiar phenomenon: a logos, understood as a sequence of written or spoken words, retains its identity through time, even though as circumstances change it says different things. I do so in honor of A. P. D. Mourelatos, who has spent his life studying logoi, and encouraging others to do the same. The example of his probing insight, clarity of thought and patient attention to these same sequences of words has done much to teach us how to listen to what they still say.
