{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0086.tlg043.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg043.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0086.tlg043.local001","title":"De spiritu","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. De spiritu. ed. Werner Jaeger. Aristotelis De animalium motione et De animalium incessu, Leipzig, Teubner, 1913. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0086.tlg043.local001","excerpt":"p. 481 a Τίς ἡ τοῦ ἐμφύτου πνεύματος διαμονή, καὶ τίς ἡ αὔξησις; 1 ὁρῶμεν γὰρ ὅτι πλέον καὶ ἰσχυρότερον γίνεται καὶ καθʼ ἡλικίας μεταβολὴν καὶ κατὰ διάθεσιν σώματος. ἢ ὡς τἆλλα μέρη, προσγινομένου τινός; προσγίνεται δὲ τροφὴ τοῖς ἐμψύχοις, ὥστε ταύτην σκεπτέον ποία τε καὶ πόθεν. δύο δὴ τρόποι διʼ ὧν γίνεται, ἢ διὰ τῆς ἀναπνοῆς, ἢ διὰ τῆς κατὰ τὴν τῆς τροφῆς προσφορὰν πέψεως, καθάπερ τοῖς ἄλλοις. τούτων ἴσως οὐχ ἧττον ἂν οὐχ οὕτω δόξειεν διὰ τῆς τροφῆς· σῶμα γὰρ ὑπὸ σώματος τρέφεται, τὸ δὲ πνεῦμα σῶμα. τίς οὖν ὁ τρόπος; ἢ δῆλον ὡς ἐκ τῆς φλεβὸς ὁλκῇ τινι καὶ πέψει. τὸ γὰρ αἷμα ἡ ἐσχάτη τροφὴ καὶ ἡ αὐτὴ πᾶσιν. ὥσπερ οὖν καὶ εἰς τὸ ἀγγεῖον αὐτοῦ καὶ εἰς τὸ περιεχόμενον λαμβάνει τροφὴν εἰς τὸ θερμόν. ἄγει δʼ ὁ ἀὴρ τὴν ἐνέργειαν ποιῶν, τήν τε πεπτικὴν αὐτὸς αὐτῷ προστιθεὶς αὔξει καὶ τρέφει. οὐδὲν δʼ ἴσως ἄτοπον αὐτό γε τοῦτο, ἀλλὰ γενέσθαι τὸ πρῶτον ἐκ τῆς τροφῆς. καθαρώτερον γὰρ ὃ τῇ ψυχῇ…","divisions":[{"label":"Chapter 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg043.local001/#tlg0086-tlg043-local001-1"},{"label":"Chapter 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg043.local001/#tlg0086-tlg043-local001-2"},{"label":"Chapter 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg043.local001/#tlg0086-tlg043-local001-3"},{"label":"Chapter 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg043.local001/#tlg0086-tlg043-local001-4"},{"label":"Chapter 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg043.local001/#tlg0086-tlg043-local001-5"},{"label":"Chapter 6","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg043.local001/#tlg0086-tlg043-local001-6"},{"label":"Chapter 7","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg043.local001/#tlg0086-tlg043-local001-7"},{"label":"Chapter 8","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg043.local001/#tlg0086-tlg043-local001-8"},{"label":"Chapter 9","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg043.local001/#tlg0086-tlg043-local001-9"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg043.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0086.tlg043.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086/tlg043/local001.json.gz"}}