# Enquiry into Plants 4.10

Theophrastus, Enquiry into Plants, Δ, Chapter 4. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/theophrastus/enquiry-into-plants/4.10

Μάλιστα δὲ σπείρουσι τὸ καλούμενον ὄρυζον. ἐξ οὗ τὸ ἕψημα. τοῦτο δὲ ὅμοιον τῇ ζειᾷ καὶ περιπτισθὲν οἶον χόνδρος εὔπεπτον δέ, τὴν ὄψιν πεφυκὸς ὅμοιον ταῖς αἴραις καὶ τὸν πολὺν χρόνον ἐν ὕδατι, ἀποχεῖται δὲ οὐκ εἰς στάχυν ἀλλ᾿ ἶον φόβην, ὥσπερ ὁ κέγχρος καὶ ὁ ἔλυμος. ἄλλο δὲ ὃ ἐκάλουν οἱ Ἕλληνες φακόν· τοῦτο δὲ ὅμοιον μὲν τῇ ὄψει καὶ τὸ βούκερας, θερίζεται δὲ περὶ Πλειάδος δύσιν.

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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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