{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0086.tlg015.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg015.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0086.tlg015.local001","title":"De animalium incessu","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":["Werner Jaeger"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Harvard College Library","sourceTitle":"Aristotelis De animalium motione et De animalium incessu","edition":null,"publisher":"Teubner","place":"Leipzig","date":"1913","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":"Harvard College Library","sponsors":["Harvard College Library"],"funders":["Harvard Library Arcadia Fund"],"principal":"Gregory Crane","responsibilities":[{"role":"Corrected and encoded the text","names":[]},{"role":"Editor-in-Chief, Perseus Digital Library","names":[]},{"role":"Project Manager (University of Leipzig)","names":[]},{"role":"Project Assistant (University of Leipzig) 2015 - 2017","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":"http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015065481239","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Aristotle. 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