Theophrastus Enquiry into Plants 1.1

ed. Arthur Hort

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

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Current edition First1KGreek

Enquiry into Plants (Greek) (Theophrastus, Enquiry into Plants, Hort, Heinemann, 1916)

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Enquiry into Plants

1. ¹ τὰ ins. Sch., om. Ald.H.
2. ² πάθη, a more general word than δυνάμεις, ‘virtues’ : cf. 1. 5. 4; 8. 4. 2; it seems to mean here something like ‘behaviour,᾿ in relation to environment. Instances of πάθη are given 4 2.11; 4. 14. 6.
3. 3 ἔχουσι conj. H.; ἔχουσαι W. with Ald.
4. ¹ i.e. the male inflorescence of some trees ; the term is of course wider than ‘catkin.᾿
5. 2 i.e. flower, catkin, leaf, fruit, shoot.
6. ¹ εὐθενεῖ conj. Sch., εὐθετεῖ UMVAld. i.e. we do not argue from the fact that animals are at their handsomest in the breeding season that the young is therefore ‘part’ of the animal.
7. ² Lit. ‘which’ are in holes,᾿ in allusion to the well-known belief that animals (especially birds) which are out of sight in the winter are hiding in holes; the text is supported by [Arist.] de plantis 1. 3, the author of which had evidently read this passage; but possibly some such words as τάς τε φολίδας καὶ have dropped out after φωλεύοντα.
8. ¹ A very obscure sentence; so W. renders the MSS, text.
9. 2 i.e. ‘inequality’ might include ‘unlikeness.’
10. ¹ cf. C.P. 5. 1. 9.
11. 2 cf. 1. 6. 11. T. extends the term καρπός so as to include any succulent edible part of a plant.
12. 3 T. does not consider that καρπός was necessarily ante- ceded by a flower.
13. ¹ i.e. before it begins to divide. ² Or ‘knots.’
14. 3 εφ᾿ conj. W.; ὑφ᾿ P2 P3 Ald.
15. 4 χρονιώτερα conj. Sch.; χρονιώτερον Ald.H
16. 5 ἀναλογίᾳ conj. Sch.; ἀναλογία UAld.H.