# Enquiry into Plants 8.4-2

Theophrastus, Enquiry into Plants, B, Chapter 8. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/theophrastus/enquiry-into-plants/8.4-2

Τοῖς δὲ φοίνιξιν αἱ ἀπὸ τῶν ἀρρένων πρὸς τοὺς. θήλεις· οὗτοι γάρ εἰσιν οἱ ἐπιμένειν ποιοῦντες καὶ ἐκπέττειν, ὃ καλοῦσί τινες ἐκ τῆς ὁμοιότητος ὀλυνθάζειν. γίνεται δὲ τόνδε τὸν τρόπον. ὅταν ἀνθῇ τὸ ἄρρεν, ἀποτέμνουσι τὴν σπάθην ἐφ᾿ ἧς τὸ ἄνθος εὐθὺς ὧσπερ ἔχει, τόν τε χνοῦν καὶ τὸ ἄνθος καὶ τὸν κονιορτὸν κατασείουσι κατὰ τοῦ καρποῦ τῆς θηλείας· κἂν τοῦτο πάθῃ, διατηρεῖ καὶ οὐκ ἀποβάλλει. φαίνεται δ᾿ ἀμφοῖν ἀπὸ τοῦ ἄρρενος τοῖς θήλεσι βοήθεια γίνεσθαι· θῆλυ γὰρ καλοῦσι τὸ καρποφόρον· ἀλλ᾿ ἡ μὲν οἶον μῖξις· ἡ δὲ κατ᾿ ἄλλον τρόπον.

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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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