# De aeternitate mundi 98

Philo Judaeus, De aeternitate mundi, Section 98. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/philo-judaeus/de-aeternitate-mundi/98

ἄλλως τε τῶν ὄντων οὐδὲν ἐκ μόνου σπέρματος δίχα τῆς οἰκείας τροφῆς ἀποτελεῖται· σπέρμα γὰρ ἔοικεν ἀρχῇ, ἀρχὴ δὲ καθ’ αὑτὴν οὐ τελειογονεῖ. μὴ γὰρ αὖ νομίσῃς τὸν στάχυν ἐκ μόνου τοῦ καταβληθέντος ὑπὸ γεωργῶν εἰς τὰς ἀρούρας βλαστάνειν πυροῦ, τὸ δὲ πλεῖστον εἰς αὔξησιν αὐτοῦ συνεργεῖν ὑγράν τε καὶ ξηρὰν διττὴν ἐκ γῆς τροφήν· καὶ τὰ ἐν μήτραις μέντοι διαπλαττόμενα πέφυκεν οὐκ ἐκ μόνου ζῳογονεῖσθαι σπέρματος ἀλλὰ καὶ τῆς ἔξωθεν ἀρδομένης τροφῆς, ἣν ἡ κύουσα προσφέρεται.

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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.
License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Source: https://thegreeklibrary.pages.lisn.upsaclay.fr/works/tlg0018.tlg029.local001/.