# Enquiry into Plants 4.6-2

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

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/theophrastus/enquiry-into-plants/4.6-2

Ἴδιον δὲ καὶ ἡ ἐβένη τῆς χώρας ταύτης· ταύτης δὲ δύο γένη, τὸ μὲν εὔξυλον καὶ καλὸν τὸ δὲ φαῦλον. σπάνιον δὲ τὸ καλὸν θάτερον δὲ πολύ. τὴν δὲ χρόαν οὐ θησαυριζομένη λαμβάνει τὴν εὔχρουν ἀλλ᾿ εὐθὺς τῇ φύσει. ἔστι δὲ τὸ δένδρον θαμνῶδες, ὥσπερ ὁ κύτισος.

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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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