# Enquiry into Plants 11.8-2

Theophrastus, Enquiry into Plants, Θ, Chapter 11. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/theophrastus/enquiry-into-plants/11.8-2

Ἔνια δὲ ἔχει τινὰ ἰδιότητα καὶ τῶν δοκούντων ὥσπερ ἀγρίων εἶναι καὶ κατὰ τὴν γένεσιν καὶ τὴν ἔκφυσιν, ὥσπερ ὁ θέρμος καὶ ὁ αἰγίλωψ· ὁ μὲν γὰρ θέρμος καίπερ ἰσχυρότατος ὢν ὅμως, ἐὰν μὴ εὐθὺς ἀπὸ τῆς ἅλω καταβληθῇ, κακοφυὴς γίνεται. καθάπερ ἐλέχθη, καὶ τὸ ὅλον δὲ οὐκ ἐθέλει κρύπτεσθαι τῇ γῇ, δι᾿ καὶ οὐχ ὑπαροῦντες σπείρουσι· πολλάκις δὲ κὰν εἰς ὕλην ἢ βοτάνην τινὰ πέσῃ, διωσάμενος ταύτην συνάπτει τὴν ῥίζαν τῇ γῇ καὶ βλαστάνει. χώραν δὲ ὕφαμμον ζητεῖ καὶ φαύλην μᾶλλον, τὸ δὲ ὅλον οὐκ ἐθέλει φύεσθαι ἐν διειργασμένῃ.

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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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