{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0057.tlg021.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg021.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0057.tlg021.local001","title":"De semine","titleGreek":null,"alternateTitles":[],"author":"Galen","authorityName":"GALENUS Med.","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0057-galenus/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0057-galenus/","editors":["Karl Gottlob Kühn"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"University of Leipzig","sourceTitle":">Claudii Galeni Opera Omnia","edition":null,"publisher":"Knobloch","place":"Lipsiae","date":"1822","volume":"4","series":null,"citation":null,"citationShort":null},"rights":{"text":"Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},"provenance":{"authority":"A Digital Corpus for Graeco-Arabic Studies, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation","sponsors":[],"funders":["Andrew W. Mellon Foundation"],"principal":null,"responsibilities":[{"role":"Published original versions of the electronic texts","names":[]},{"role":"Keyboarding","names":[]},{"role":"Editor-in-Chief, Perseus Digital Library","names":[]},{"role":"Project Manager (University of Leipzig)","names":[]},{"role":"Project Assistant (University of Leipzig)","names":[]},{"role":"Lead Developer (University of Leipzig)","names":[]},{"role":"Technical Advisor","names":[]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://hdl.handle.net/2027/chi.11102513?urlappend=%3Bseq=522","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Galen. De semine. ed. Karl Gottlob Kühn. >Claudii Galeni Opera Omnia, Lipsiae, Knobloch, 1822. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0057.tlg021.local001","excerpt":"Τίς ἡ χρεία καὶ τίς ἡ δύναμίς ἐστι τοῦ σπέρματος; ἆρά γε λόγον ἔχει δυοῖν ἀρχαῖν, ὑλικῆς τε καὶ δραστικῆς, ὡς Ἱπποκράτης ὑπελάμβανεν; ἢ τῆς ἑτέρας μόνης, τῆς ποιητικῆς, ὡς Ἀριστοτέλης οἴεται, ἀρχὴν μὲν κινήσεως ὑπ’ αὐτοῦ γίνεσθαι τῷ καταμηνίῳ νομίζων, οὐ μὴν ἐξ αὐτοῦ διαπλάττεσθαι τὸ ζῶον συγχωρῶν; ἄξιον οὖν ἐπισκέψασθαι καὶ διακρῖναι τηλικούτων ἀνδρῶν διαφωνίαν, οὐ πιθανοῖς ἐπιτρέψαντες λόγοις, οἷς οἱ πλεῖστοι τῶν ἰατρῶν τε καὶ φιλοσόφων χαίρουσιν, ἀλλ’ ἐξ ἐναργῶν τε καὶ δι’ ἐναργῶν ἀποδεικνύντες. ἐπεὶ δὲ ἐκ τῆς περὶ ἑκάστου τῶν ζητουμένων ἐμπειρίας οἴεται χρῆναι καὶ Ἀριστοτέλης εἰς τὰς ἀποδείξεις λαμβάνεσθαι τὰ λήμματα, πρῶτον τοῦτο ἐπισκεψώμεθα ἀκριβῶς, πότερον ἔνδον μένει τὸ σπέρμα ταῖς μελλούσαις κυΐσκειν, ἢ καὶ συνεκκρίνεται. Τριττὴν δ’ ἐγχωρεῖ ποιήσασθαι τὴν ἐπίσκεψιν, ἐναργεστάτην μὲν, ἣν πολλάκις κᾀγὼ ἐποιησάμην, ἵππους τε καὶ κύνας, καὶ ὄνους, καὶ βοῦς, αἶγάς τε καὶ πρόβατα…","divisions":[{"label":"Book 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg021.local001/#tlg0057-tlg021-local001-1"},{"label":"Book 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg021.local001/#tlg0057-tlg021-local001-2"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg021.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0057.tlg021.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057/tlg021/local001.json.gz"}}