# Enquiry into Plants 4.6-4

Theophrastus, Enquiry into Plants, ΘΕΟΦΡΑΣΤΟΥ ΠΕΡΙ ΦΥΤΩΝ ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑΣ, Chapter 4. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/theophrastus/enquiry-into-plants/4.6-4

Ἡ δ᾿ ἄκορνα προσεμφερὴς ὡς ἁπλῶς εἰπεῖν κατὰ τὴν πρόσοψιν τῇ κνήκῳ τῇ ἡμέρῳ. χρῶμα δ᾿ ἐπίξανθον ἔχει καὶ χυλὸν λιπαρόν. ἀτρακτυλὶς δέ τις καλεῖται καὶ λευκοτέρα τούτων· ἴδιον δὲ ἔχει τὸ περὶ τὸ φύλλον, ὅτι ἀφαιρούμενον καὶ τῇ σαρκὶ προσφερόμενον αἱματώδη ποιεῖ τὸν χυλόν, δι᾿ ὃ καὶ φόνον ἔνιοι καλοῦσι τὴν ἄκανθαν ταύτην· ἔχει δὲ καὶ τὴν ὀσμὴν δεινὴν καὶ φονώδη· ὀψὲ δὲ καὶ τελειοῖ τὸν καρπὸν πρὸς τὸ μετόπωρον. τὸ δ᾿ ὅλον ὡς ἀπλῶς εἰπεῖν ἅποσα ἡ ἀκανικὴ φύσις ὀψίκαρπος. ἅπόντα δὲ ταῦτα φύεται καὶ ἀπὸ τοῦ σπέρματος καὶ ἀπὸ τῆς ῥίζης, ὥστε βραχύν τινα γίνεσθαι τὸν ἀνὰ μέσον χρόνον τῆς ἐκφύσεως τε καὶ τῆς τοῦ σπέρματος τελειώσεως.

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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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