# Enquiry into Plants 1.4-9

Theophrastus, Enquiry into Plants, I, Chapter 1. Ancient Greek.

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Τὸ μὲν οὖν τοῦ ἱπποσελίνου παρόμοιον τῇ σμύρνῃ· καί τινες ἀκούσαντες ὡς ἐντεῦθεν ἡ σμύρνα ἡγοῦνται βλαστάνειν ἐξ αὐτῆς ἱπποσέλίνον· φυτεύεται γάρ, ὥσπερ ἐλέχθη, καὶ ἀπὸ δακρύου τὸ ἱπποσέλινον, καθάπερ ἡ κρινωνία καὶ ἄλλα. τὸ δὲ τοῦ σιλφίου δριμύ, καθάπερ αὐτὸ τὸ σίλφιον· ὁ γὰρ ὀπὸς καλούμενος τοῦ σιλφίου δάκρυόν ἐστιν. ἡ δὲ σκαμμωνία καὶ εἴ τι ἄλλο τοιοῦτον, ὥσπερ ἐλέχθη, φαρμακώδεις ἔχουσι τὰς δυνάμεις.

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Theophrastus, Enquiry into Plants, ed. Arthur Hort. 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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