GENERATION OF ANIMALS, II. viii. 



ingredient to the mixture. The final result which is 

 produced is a ginnos.'^ This is a deformed mule, for 

 ginnoi are produced also from the horse and the ass 

 when the fetation gets diseased in the uterus, the 

 ginnos being comparable to the metachoiron which 

 occurs among smne, since in that case too it is the 

 offspring which has been deformed in the uterus 

 that is called a metachoiron : any pig may happen 

 to be born thus deformed. Human dwarfs too are 

 formed in a similar way : they too become deformed 

 in their parts and stunted in size during the time 

 of gestation, and thus are comparable with metachoira 

 and ginnoi. 



oflfspring which sometimes result from the union of male and 

 female of one and the same species. For metachoira see also 

 770 b 7. 



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