# Historia animalium 8.9

Aristotle, Historia animalium, Book 8. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/aristotle/historia-animalium/8.9

Ὁ δ’ ἐλέφας ἐσθίει πλεῖστον μὲν μεδίμνους Μακεδονικοὺς ἐννέα ἐπὶ μιᾶς ἐδωδῆς· ἐπικίνδυνον δὲ τὸ τοσοῦτον πλῆθος· τὸ δ’ ἐπίπαν ἓξ μεδίμνους ἢ ἑπτά, ἀλφίτων δὲ πέντε μεδίμνους καὶ οἴνου πέντε μάρεις (ἔστι δ’ ὁ μάρις ἓξ κοτύλαι). Ἤδη δέ τις ἔπιεν ἐλέφας μετρητὰς ὕδατος Μακεδονικοὺς εἰσάπαξ δέκα καὶ τέτταρας, καὶ πάλιν τῆς δείλης ἄλλους ὀκτώ. Ζῶσι δ’ αἱ μὲν πολλαὶ τῶν καμήλων περὶ ἔτη τριάκοντα, ἔνιαι δὲ πολλῷ πλείω· καὶ γὰρ εἰς ἔτη ἑκατὸν ζῶσιν. Τὸν δ’ ἐλέφαντα ζῆν οἱ μὲν περὶ ἔτη διακόσιά φασιν, οἱ δὲ τριακόσια.

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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.
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/.