735 b 



ARISTOTLE 



35 /Jiov, e^eXOov^ 8e orav aTTOTrvevar) to depfxov Kal 

 6 drjp ifjvxdjj, vypov ytverai Kal fJieXav AetTTerai 

 yap TO vScop Kal et tl puKpov yetoSe?, oiOTrep iv 

 (f>XeypLaTL, Kal ev to) arreppbaTL ^ripaLvofxevcp. 



"Ecrrt /Jiev ovv to airepiia kolvov TTveu/xaro? /cat 

 vhaTOS, TO Se TTvevfjid ecrri depfios drjp- Sto vypov 

 TTjv <f)vai,v, OTL i^ vSaTOS. KxT^crtas' yap 6 Kvt- 

 Slos a TTepl Tov OTrepfiaTOS tcov iXecjidvTiov ei-'- 

 pTjKe, (j>av€p6'S eoTLV eipevafxevo^. ^i^CTt yap ovtcd 

 5 aKXrjpvveadaL ^rjpaivofxevov cbare yiveadai rjXeKTpq) 

 opiOLOv. TOVTO 8' ov yivcTaf pidXXov p.ev yap 

 €T€pov eTepov GTrepfxa yecxjSeaTepov dvayKalov 

 elvat, Kal p^dXioTa tolovtov oaois ttoXv yeoiSe? 

 VTTapx^i' KaTa tov oyKov tov tov acv/JLaTos. rraxv 

 8e Kal XevKov 8ia to fJLepuxdoLi' TTvevpua. Kal yap 



10 XevKov ecrrt to OTreppLa iravTcov 'HpoSoTOS yap ovk 

 dXrjdrj Xeyei, (f)daKa}v fieXaivav elvat ttjv tcjv 

 AWlottojv yovrjv, djCTTvep dvayKalov ov tcov ttjv 

 Xpdav p^eXdviov elvai TrdvTa pbiXava, Kal Tavd^ opojv 

 Kal Tovs oSovTas avTchv ovTas XevKovs. atTiov 8e 



TT^S" XeVKOTTITOS TOV aTTepfXaTOS OTL eUTLV Tj yOVTj 



15 d(f)p6s, 6 8' d(f>p6s XevKov, Kal jxaXiGTa to i^ 

 ^ eieXdov Peck : f^eXOovros vulg. 



" See 725 a 15 ff. 



*" Ktesias of Knidos in Caria, a contemporary of Xenophon, 

 belonged to an old medical family, and was physician to the 

 Persian king Artaxerxes Mnemon (405-362 b.c). His chief 

 work was his JlepoLKo., in 23 books, containing the history 

 of the East down to 398-397 b.c. Most of his zoological 

 matter, however, seems to have been contained in his 'IvhiKo., 

 judging from this reference and three others in the History 

 of Animals. Abridgements of both these works by Photius 

 are extant. * Herodotus III. 101. 



"* The view that semen was foam was held by Diogenes of 



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