# Enquiry into Plants 8.6-6

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

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/theophrastus/enquiry-into-plants/8.6-6

Καὶ ταῦτα μὲν καὶ τὰ παραπλήσια τούτοις τάχ᾿ ἂν οὐκ ἀλλοτρίως δόξειεν λέγειν· ἐπισινεῖς γάρ τινων αἱ δυνάμεις· ἐξάπτειν γάρ φασιν ὥσπερ πῦρ καὶ κατακαίειν· ἐπεὶ καὶ ὁ ἐλλέβορος ταχὺ καρηβαρεῖν ποιεῖ, καὶ οὐ δύνανται πολὺν χρόνον ὀρύττειν, δι᾿ καὶ προεσθίουσι σκόροδα καὶ ἄκρατον ἐπιπίνουσιν. ἀλλὰ τὰ τοιαῦτα ὥσπερ ἐπίθετα καὶ πόρρωθεν, οἷον τὴν παιωνίαν, οἱ δὲ γλυκυσίδην καλοῦσι, νύκτωρ κελεύουσιν ὀρύττειν· ἐὰν γὰρ ἡμέρας καὶ ὀφθῇ τις ὑπὸ δρυοκολάπτου τὸν μὲν καρπὸν ἀπολέγων κινδυνεύειν τοῖς ὀφθαλμοῖς, τὴν δὲ ῥίζαν τέμνων ἐκπίπτειν τὴν ἔδραν.

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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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