XXX.
WHY ARE VINES WHICH ARE RANK OF LEAVES, BUT OTHERWISE FRUIT- LESS, SAID τραγᾶν?

Is it because very fat goats ( τράγοι) are less able to procreate, nay, scarce able to use coition, by reason of their fatness Seed is the superfluity of the aliment which is allotted to the body: now, when either an animal or a plant is of a very strong constitution and grows fat, it is a sign that all the nourishment is spent within, and that there is little and base excrement, or none at all.

Quaestiones Naturales. Plutarch. ed. William W. Goodwin. Boston. 1874.

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Plutarch's Natural Questions (English) (Plutarch. Plutarch's Morals, Vol. III. Goodwin, William W., editor; Brown, R., translator. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company; Cambridge: Press of John Wilson and Son, 1874.)

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Αἴτια φυσικά Perseus (Plutarch. Plutarchi Chaeronensis Moralia, Vol. V. Vernardakēs, Grēgorios N., editor. Leipzig: Teubner, 1893.) — 30 focus

[30] διὰ τί τῶν ἀμπέλων τὰς ἀκάρπους, τοῖς δʼ ἀκρέμοσι καὶ ἔρνεσιν εὐτροφούσας τραγᾶν λέγομεν;

919c ἦ ὅτι τῶν τράγων οἱ σφόδρα πίονες ἧττόν εἰσι 10 γόνιμοι καὶ μόλις ὑπὸ πιμελῆς ὀχεύουσι; τὸ γὰρ σπέρμα περίττωμα τῆς τροφῆς ἐστι τῆς τῷ σώματι προστιθεμένης· ὅταν οὖν ἢ ζῷον ἢ δένδρον εὐεκτῇ καὶ παχύνηται, τοῦτο σημεῖόν ἐστι τοῦ τὴν τροφὴν ἐν ἑαυτῷ καταναλισκομένην μηθὲν ἢ μικρόν τι καὶ 15 ἀγεννὲς περίττωμα ποιεῖν.

Plutarch Quaestiones Naturales 30

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