# Historia animalium 3.8

Aristotle, Historia animalium, Book 3. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/aristotle/historia-animalium/3.8

ἔστι δὲ καὶ ὁ χόνδρος τῆς αὐτῆς φύσεως τοῖς ὀστοῖς, ἀλλὰ τῷ μᾶλλον διαφέρει καὶ ἧττον. Καὶ ὥσπερ οὐδ’ ὀστοῦν οὐδ’ ὁ χόνδρος αὐξάνεται, ἂν ἀποκοπῇ. Εἰσὶ δ’ ἐν μὲν τοῖς χερσαίοις καὶ ζῳοτόκοις τῶν ἐναίμων ἄτρητοι οἱ χόνδροι, καὶ οὐ γίνεται ἐν αὐτοῖς ὥσπερ ἐν τοῖς ὀστοῖς μυελός· ἐν δὲ τοῖς σελάχεσιν (ταῦτα γάρ ἐστι χονδράκανθα) ἔνεστιν αὐτῶν ἐν τοῖς πλατέσι τὸ κατὰ τὴν ῥάχιν ἀνάλογον τοῖς ὀστοῖς χονδρῶδες, ἐν οἷς ὑπάρχει ὑγρότης μυελώδης. Τῶν ζῳοτοκούντων δὲ πεζῶν περί τε τὰ ὦτα χόνδροι εἰσὶ καὶ τοὺς μυκτῆρας καὶ περὶ ἔνια ἀκρωτήρια τῶν ὀστῶν.

---

Aristotle, Historia animalium, ed. Immanuel Bekker. Text: The Greek Library, from the Perseus Digital Library and other open sources, CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: apostrophes normalised and the text divided into reading sections by Interlinea.
License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Source: https://thegreeklibrary.pages.lisn.upsaclay.fr/works/tlg0086.tlg014.local001/.