{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0086.tlg037.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg037.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0086.tlg037.local001","title":"De respiratione","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":"University of Leipzig","sourceTitle":"Aristotelis Opera","edition":null,"publisher":"Oxford University Press","place":"Oxford","date":"1837","volume":"3","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. 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Aristotelis Opera, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1837. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0086.tlg037.local001","excerpt":"Περὶ γὰρ ἀναπνοῆς ὀλίγοι μέν τινες τῶν πρότερον φυσικῶν εἰρήκασιν· τίνος μέντοι χάριν ὑπάρχει τοῖς ζῴοις, οἱ μὲν οὐδὲν ἀπεφήναντο, οἱ δὲ εἰρήκασι μέν, οὐ καλῶς δ’ εἰρήκασιν ἀλλ’ ἀπειροτέρως τῶν συμβαινόντων. Ἔτι δὲ πάντα τὰ ζῷά φασιν ἀναπνεῖν· τοῦτο δ’ οὐκ ἔστιν ἀληθές. Ὥστ’ ἀναγκαῖον περὶ τούτων πρῶτον ἐπελθεῖν, ὅπως μὴ δοκῶμεν ἀπόντων κενὴν κατηγορεῖν. Ὅτι μὲν οὖν ὅσα πλεύμονα ἔχει τῶν ζῴων, ἀναπνεῖ πάντα, φανερόν. Ἀλλὰ καὶ τούτων αὐτῶν ὅσα μὲν ἄναιμον ἔχει τὸν πλεύμονα καὶ σομφόν, ἧττον δέονται τῆς ἀναπνοῆς· διὸ πολὺν χρόνον ἐν τοῖς ὕδασι δύνανται διαμένειν παρὰ τὴν τοῦ σώματος ἰσχύν. Τὸν δὲ πλεύμονα σομφὸν ἔχει πάντα τὰ ᾠοτοκοῦντα, οἷον τὸ τῶν βατράχων γένος. Ἔτι δὲ αἱ ἑμύδες τε καὶ χελῶναι πολὺν χρόνον μένουσιν ἐν τοῖς ὑγροῖς· ὁ γὰρ πλεύμων ὀλίγην ἔχει θερμότητα· ὀλίγαιμον γὰρ ἔχουσιν αὐτόν· ἐμφυσώμενος οὖν αὐτὸς τῇ κινήσει καταψύχει καὶ ποιεῖ διαμένειν πολὺν χρόνον. Ἐὰν μέντοι…","divisions":[{"label":"ΠΕΡΙ ΑΝΑΠΝΟΗΣ.","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg037.local001/#tlg0086-tlg037-local001-1"},{"label":"Chapter 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg037.local001/#tlg0086-tlg037-local001-2"},{"label":"Chapter 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg037.local001/#tlg0086-tlg037-local001-3"},{"label":"Chapter 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg037.local001/#tlg0086-tlg037-local001-4"},{"label":"Chapter 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg037.local001/#tlg0086-tlg037-local001-5"},{"label":"Chapter 6","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg037.local001/#tlg0086-tlg037-local001-6"},{"label":"Chapter 7","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg037.local001/#tlg0086-tlg037-local001-7"},{"label":"Chapter 8","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg037.local001/#tlg0086-tlg037-local001-8"},{"label":"Chapter 9","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg037.local001/#tlg0086-tlg037-local001-9"},{"label":"Chapter 10","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg037.local001/#tlg0086-tlg037-local001-10"},{"label":"Chapter 11","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg037.local001/#tlg0086-tlg037-local001-11"},{"label":"Chapter 12","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg037.local001/#tlg0086-tlg037-local001-12"},{"label":"Chapter 13","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg037.local001/#tlg0086-tlg037-local001-13"},{"label":"Chapter 14","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg037.local001/#tlg0086-tlg037-local001-14"},{"label":"Chapter 15","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg037.local001/#tlg0086-tlg037-local001-15"},{"label":"Chapter 16","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg037.local001/#tlg0086-tlg037-local001-16"},{"label":"Chapter 17","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg037.local001/#tlg0086-tlg037-local001-17"},{"label":"Chapter 18","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg037.local001/#tlg0086-tlg037-local001-18"},{"label":"Chapter 19","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg037.local001/#tlg0086-tlg037-local001-19"},{"label":"Chapter 20","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg037.local001/#tlg0086-tlg037-local001-20"},{"label":"Chapter 21","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg037.local001/#tlg0086-tlg037-local001-21"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg037.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0086.tlg037.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086/tlg037/local001.json.gz"}}