# Historia animalium 5.29

Aristotle, Historia animalium, Book 5. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/aristotle/historia-animalium/5.29

Ὁμοίως δὲ τίκτουσι καὶ οἱ ἀττέλαβοι, καὶ τεκόντες ἀποθνήσκουσιν. Φθείρεται δ’ αὐτῶν τὰ ᾠὰ ὑπὸ τῶν μετοπωρινῶν ὑδάτων, ὅταν πολλὰ γένηται· ἂν δ’ αὐχμὸς συμβῇ, τότε γίνονται μᾶλλον πολλοὶ οἱ ἀττέλαβοι διὰ τὸ μὴ φθείρεσθαι ὁμοίως, ἐπεὶ ἄτακτός γε δοκεῖ ἡ φθορὰ αὐτῶν, καὶ γίνεσθαι ὅπως αν τύχῃ.

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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.
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