Theophrastus Enquiry into Plants 3.18.8

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Enquiry into Plants. Theophrastus. ed. Arthur Hort. United States. 2017.

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Enquiry into Plants

1. ¹ cf. Theocr. 11. 46. Plin. 16. 145 foll.
2. ³ i. e. is the most ‘distinct’ of the ivies.
3. 4 cf. 1. 10. 1; Diosc. 2. 179.
4. 5 i.e. as an explanation of the barrenness of helix.
5. 6 i.e. and so becomes fertile.
6. 7 διατείνονται : cf. C. P. 4. 6. 1. διατ. τῳ . . . apparently = “insist on the view that,” . . . but the dative is strange The sentence, which is highly elliptical, is freely emended by most editors.