# De aeternitate mundi 97

Philo Judaeus, De aeternitate mundi, Section 97. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/philo-judaeus/de-aeternitate-mundi/97

τὸν αὐτὸν μέντοι τρόπον καὶ τὰ γένη τῶν ζῴων, ἃ μηδὲ εἰπεῖν διὰ πλῆθος ῥᾴδιον, ἄχρι μὲν περίεστι καὶ ἡβᾷ, σπέρμα προΐεται γόνιμον, τελευτήσαντα δ’ οὐδαμῆ οὐδαμῶς γίνεται σπέρμα· καὶ γὰρ εὔηθες ἄνθρωπον ζῶντα μὲν ὀγδόῳ μέρει ψυχῆς, ὃ καλεῖται γόνιμον, πρὸς τὴν τοῦ ὁμοίου σπορὰν χρῆσθαι, τελευτήσαντα δὲ ὅλῳ ἑαυτῷ· θάνατος γὰρ οὔτι ζωῆς ἀνυσιμώτερος.

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Philo Judaeus, De aeternitate mundi, ed. Siegfried Reiter, Leopold Cohn. 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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