# Enquiry into Plants 16.7

Theophrastus, Enquiry into Plants, I, Chapter 16. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/theophrastus/enquiry-into-plants/16.7

τοῦτο μὲν οὐδὲν ἄτοπον, εἰ τρόπον μέν τινα ἀβοήθητον ἄλλως δὲ βοηθήσιμον, ὥσπερ καὶ ἕτερα τῶν θανατηφόρων. Τὸ δὲ ἀκόνιτον ἄχρηστον, ὥσπερ εἴρηται, τοῖς μὴ ἐπισταμένοις· οὐδὲ κεκτῆσθαι δὲ ἐξεῖναι, ἀλλὰ θάνατον τὴν ζημίαν· τὴν δὲ τῶν χρόνων διαφορὰν ἀκολουθεῖν κατὰ τὰς συλλογάς· ἰσοχρόνους γὰρ τοὺς θανάτους γίνεσθαι τοῖς ἀπὸ τῆς συλλογῆς χρόνοις.

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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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