{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0086.tlg012.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg012.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0086.tlg012.local001","title":"De Generatione Animalium","titleGreek":null,"alternateTitles":[],"author":"Aristotle","authorityName":"ARISTOTELES Phil. et CORPUS AR-","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0086-aristoteles-phil-et-corpus-ar/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0086-aristoteles-phil-et-corpus-ar/","editors":["Immanuel Bekker"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Open Greek and Latin","sourceTitle":"Aristotelis De generatione animalium libri quinque","edition":null,"publisher":"Typis Academicis, G. Reimer","place":"Berlin","date":"1829","volume":null,"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":null,"sponsors":[],"funders":["Center for Hellenic Studies"],"principal":null,"responsibilities":[{"role":"Published original versions of the electronic texts","names":[]},{"role":"Digital conversion and editing","names":[]},{"role":"Digital conversion and editing","names":[]},{"role":"Digital conversion and editing","names":[]},{"role":"Digital conversion and editing","names":[]},{"role":"Digital conversion and editing","names":[]},{"role":"Digital conversion and editing","names":[]},{"role":"Digital conversion and editing","names":[]},{"role":"Digital conversion and editing","names":[]},{"role":"Digital conversion and editing","names":[]},{"role":"Digital conversion and editing","names":[]},{"role":"Digital conversion and editing","names":[]},{"role":"Digital conversion and editing","names":[]},{"role":"Digital conversion and editing","names":[]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://hdl.handle.net/2027/njp.32101073028480","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Aristotle. De Generatione Animalium. ed. Immanuel Bekker. Aristotelis De generatione animalium libri quinque, Berlin, Typis Academicis, G. Reimer, 1829. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0086.tlg012.local001","excerpt":"Ἐπεὶ δὲ περὶ τῶν ἄλλων μορίων εἴρηται τῶν ἐν τοῖς ζῴοις καὶ κοινῇ καὶ καθ’ ἕκαστον γένος περὶ τῶν ἰδίων χωρίς, τίνα τρόπον διὰ τὴν τοιαύτην αἰτίαν ἐστὶν ἕκαστον, λέγω δὲ ταύτην τὴν ἕνεκά του· ὑπόκεινται γὰρ αἰτίαι τέτταρες, τό τε οὗ ἕνεκα ὡς τέλος, καὶ ὁ λόγος τῆς οὐσίας. ταῦτα μὲν οὖν ὡς ἕν τι σχεδὸν ὑπολαβεῖν δεῖ, τρίτον δὲ καὶ τέταρτον ἡ ὕλη καὶ ὅθεν ἡ ἀρχὴ τῆς κινήσεως. περὶ μὲν οὖν τῶν ἄλλων εἴρηται (ὅ τε γὰρ λόγος καὶ τὸ οὗ ἕνεκα ὡς τέλος ταὐτόν, καὶ ὕλη τοῖς ζῴοις τὰ μέρη, παντὶ μὲν τῷ ὅλῳ τὰ ἀνομοιομερῆ, τοῖς δ᾽ ἀνομοιομερέσι τὰ ὁμοιομερῆ, τούτοις δὲ τὰ καλούμενα στοιχεῖα τῶν σωμάτων), λοιπὸν δὲ τῶν μὲν μορίων τὰ πρὸς τὴν γένεσιν συντελοῦντα τοῖς ζῴοις, περὶ ὧν οὐθὲν διώρισται πρότερον, περὶ αἰτίας δὲ τῆς κινούσης, τίς αὕτη. τὸ δὲ περὶ ταύτης σκοπεῖν καὶ τὸ περὶ τῆς γενέσεως τῆς ἑκάστου τρόπον τινὰ ταὐτόν ἐστιν· διόπερ ὁ λόγος εἰς ἓν συνήγαγε, τῶν μὲν περὶ τὰ μόρια τελευταῖα…","divisions":[{"label":"Book 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg012.local001/#tlg0086-tlg012-local001-1"},{"label":"Book 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg012.local001/#tlg0086-tlg012-local001-2"},{"label":"Book 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg012.local001/#tlg0086-tlg012-local001-3"},{"label":"Book 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg012.local001/#tlg0086-tlg012-local001-4"},{"label":"Book 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg012.local001/#tlg0086-tlg012-local001-5"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg012.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0086.tlg012.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086/tlg012/local001.json.gz"}}