The followers of Heraclītos, referred to by Plato as τοὺς ῥέοντας (Theœtetus, 181 A). Heraclitos denied the permanency of everything in nature except change. Tennyson has a poem entitled Ὅι ῥέοντες.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.