# Enquiry into Plants 12.2-5

Theophrastus, Enquiry into Plants, I, Chapter 12. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/theophrastus/enquiry-into-plants/12.2-5

Ὁ δὲ μέλας τῷ μὲν φύλλῳ παρόμοιος, σκολυμῶδες γὰρ ἔχει πλὴν ἔλαττον καὶ λειότερον, αὐτὸς δ᾿ ὅλος ἐστὶν ὥσπερ σκιάδιον, ἡ δὲ ῥίζα παχεῖα καὶ μέλαινα διαρραγεῖσα δὲ ὑπόξανθος. χωρία δὲ φιλεῖ ψυχρὰ καὶ ἀργά· δύναται δὲ λέπραν τε ἐξελαύνειν ἐν ὄξει τριβόμενος καὶ ξυσθεὶς ἐπαλειφόμενος καὶ ἀλφὸν ὡσαύτως· ἀναιρεῖ δὲ καὶ τοὺς κύνας.

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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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