# Enquiry into Plants 5.2-9

Theophrastus, Enquiry into Plants, I, Chapter 5. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/theophrastus/enquiry-into-plants/5.2-9

Ἄλλοι δὲ θαμνῶδες μὲν καὶ ἔτι μᾶλλον φρυγανῶδες εἶναί φασι· δύο δ᾿ αὐτοῦ γένη, τὸ μὲν μέλαν τὸ δὲ λευκόν. λέγεται δέ τις καὶ μῦθος ὑπὲρ αὐτοῦ· φύεσθαι μὲν γάρ φασιν ἐν φάραγξιν, ἐν ταύταις δ᾿ ὄφεις εἶναι πολλοὺς δῆγμα θανάσιμον ἔχοντας, πρὸς οὓς φραξάμενοι τὰς χεῖρας καὶ τοὺς πόδας καταβαίνουσι καὶ συλλέγουσιν, εἶθ᾿ ὅταν ἐξενέγκωσι διελόντες τρία μέρη διακληροῦνται πρὸς τὸν ἥλιον, καὶ ἣν ἂν λάχῃ ὁ ἥλιος καταλείπουσιν· ἀπιόντες δ᾿ εὐθὺς ὁρᾶν φασι καιομένην ταύτην· οὗτος μὲν οὖν τῷ ὄντι μῦθος.

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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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